Book III. 0<%3^lTH0L0gr. 381 



§. ir. 



The hooksd-bill'd Duck, 



JNftiapeof body and outward lineaments it is very like the common tame Dnch& 

 differs chiefly in the Bill, which is broad, fbmething longer than the common 

 Ducks, and bending moderately downward. The Head alfo is leffer and flenderer 

 than the common Ducks. It is faid to be a better layer. 



$. III. 



TheMufcovy Ducj^: Anas mofcata,an Cmm^Aldrov .<? 



TT is in this kind the biggeft of all we have hitherto feen. The colour both of Male 

 and Female is for the moft part a purplifh black. Yet I once faw a Duck of this 

 kind purely white. About the Nofthrils and the Eyes it hath red * Caruncles. It hath * Tuberous 

 a hoarfe voice; and fcarce audible, unlets when it is angry. Its Eyes are rounder than naked fleflu 

 ordinary : Thofe of the young ones at firft are of a fordid green, afterwards become 

 continually whiter and whiter. 



§. IV. 



The Cairo-Duck^ of Aldrovand. 



THefe Ducks Aldrovand thus briefly defcribes. They exceed ours in bignefs of 

 body. The Male alfo in this kind is bigger than the Female. It Bill where it 

 joyns to the Head is very thick and tuberous ; thence to the very tip it is continuedly 

 narrower, till it ends in a (harp and crooked hook : It is of a black colour excepting 

 toward the end, where it hath a good large red fpot,and in its beginning another (mall 

 one of the fame colour, but more dilute. Its Head was black and tufted : Its Throat 

 juft under the Bill was powdered withwhitifh {peeks. The Eyes yellow, wherein 

 appeared many little fanguine veins. The whole body almoft was alio black. The fea- 

 thers of the Back in the beginning, and alfo in the middle, were black, in the end 

 green, or at leaft black, withatin&ureof green. In the Wings alfo and in the Tail 

 werefome green feathers to be feen, and one or two white ones, which made a kind 

 of white fpot. The Legs were very ftrong, but fhort, coming near to a Chefhut 

 colour, as did alfo the feet. The Female was lefs than the Male, and had a lefs tube- 

 rous Bill, where it was joyned to the Head, marked with a pretty broad line, partly 

 white, and partly red. Befides, that fpot we mentioned, which in the Bill of the 

 Male was red, in the Bill of this was of an afh-colour,wherewith fomething of red was 

 mixt : Elfe it was of a colour from black inclining to cinereous, if you except two 

 whitiih fpots, which in the middle of the Bill turning one to another, each by itfelf 

 formed the letter C. It had no tuft on its black Head. Its Breaft alfo was of the fame 

 colour,fpotted with white pricks. The Back as in the Male,but the Wings were much 

 greener than his, and fpotted alfo with two white fpots. In other particulars it diffe- 

 red little or nothing from him. 



§. v, 



* The Quiny Duc\ : AnasLibyca, Aldrov. andBellon. which we take to be the fame 

 with the Mufcovy and Cairo Duck: 



THis kind of Duck Bellonius thus defcribes. A few years agone a certain kind of 

 Ducks began to be kept in France, of a middle fize, between aGoofe and a 

 Dttck^j having a broken voice, as if it had diftempered or ulcerated Lungs. Now 

 there is fo great plenty of them in our Country, that they are every where kept in Ci- 

 ties, and publicly expofed to fale : For at great entertainments and Marriage Feafts 

 they are fought for and defired. They have fhort Legs : The Male is bigger than 

 the Female; and, as is ufualin other Birds , of a different colour, fothat it is hard to 

 afcribe any certain colour to it, unlefs one would fay that it comes near to a Duck? 

 colour. They are for the moft part either black or particoloured. They have a Bill in a 3 



manner 



