Book III. 2? A£ IT H LOXfT. j 7 ? 



§. x. 



* A Wild Brapan Buck., called^ Ipocati-Apoa, by the PortHghefe, Pata, that k, 



A Goofe. Marggrav. 



IT is of the bignefs of a Goofe of eight or nine months, of the very fhape and figure 

 of our common Ducks. The Belly, lower part of the Tail, the whole Neck and 

 Head are covered with white feathers 5 theBack to the Neck, the Wings and top of 

 the Head with black, having a mixture of green, as in the Necks of our Ducks, in 

 the Neck and Belly are black feathers, all about fparfedly mingled with the white. Jft 

 differs from our Country Ducks'm thefe particulars : 1. That it is bigger. 2. It hath 

 indeed a Ducks Bill, but black and hooked at the end. 3. Upon [or above] the 

 Sill it carries a flefhycreft, broad, and almoft round, of a black colour, remarkably 

 %>tted with white. The Creft is of equal height. Between the Creft and the Bill 

 ( s*a. on the top of the Bill J) is a tranfverfe hole of the bignefs of a Peafe, x confpicu- 

 ous-)n both fides, which ferves inftead of Nofthrils. 4. The colour of the Legs and 

 Feefis not red, but of a dusky afti-colour. It is full of flefh, and good meat. It is 

 foundevery where about the Rivers. 



I ha* another in all things like this, excepting that thofe long feathers in the Wings 

 were of: a Ihining brown colour. I fuppofe this is the Male, the other the Female. 



§. XI. 



* Thefirfl Brafilian wild Duck., called Mareca, of Marggrape. 



IT hath a Ducks Bill, of a brown colour, at the rife whereof on each fide is a ved 

 fpot. The Head above is of a grey Hare-colour : The fides Of the Head under 

 the Eyes all white. The whole Breaft and lower Belly hath an obfcure refemblarice of 

 the colour of Oaken boards 5 and is befides variegated with black points [ fpecks. ] 

 The Legs and Feet are black 3 the Tail grey . The Wings elegant, at the fetting on of 

 a dark grey colour. * The quil-feathers on one fide are of the former colour, but all * 1 fuppofe he 

 tie outer half of them [medietas extrema ~] of a pale brown : In the middle they are JJJf taner" 

 cf a fhining green, with a border of black 3 like the colour of the Mallards Neck, quils, or thofe 

 Is flefh is very good meat. The outmoft of a light brown, and the middlemoft of a y^Ve'of a°" 

 Ihining green, with a fringe ot -border of black. darkgrey.as 



was before in- 



§. XII. ' imated - 



* The fecond Brazilian wild Dhc^ called Mziecsi, of Marggrape. 



"|T is of the fame bignefs and figure with the precedent, hath a black fhining Bill. 



J The top of the Head, the upper part of the Neck, and the whole Back are of an 



Umter colour mixed with brown [_frfco. ~] Under the Throat it is white. The Eyes 



are Hack, and before each Eye is a (mall round fpot of a yellowith white colour. 



The whole Breaft and lower Belly are of a dark grey, with a mixture of golden. 



The Tail is black : The Wing-feathers dusky, with a glofs of fhining green, and the 



middfe feathers of the Wings are of a rare green and blue fhining in a dusky : Here 



alio they have a waved line of black : But the * end £ extremitas ~] of the quil-feathers * ° r border, 



is whdly white. The Legs and Feet are of a bright red or vermilion colour. The oitfid? 3 ^ 



Bird rcafted colours the hands of thofe that touch it a and linnen cloth with a fanguine 



colour. It hath well tafted flefh, but a little bitter. 



'cc 2 Chap. 



