BIRDS. PALMIPEDES. 55. Anas. 13 



The young have the neck and breast fpotrted black, and white. 



Female, reddish-brown barred with black : head and upper-part 

 of the neck with dusky longitudinal streaks : wings with 2 white 

 bands : belly deep brown with obfeure black marks : tail dusky. 



268. A. spectdbilis. Bill orange, with a flat compressed 

 gibbosity at the base, divided by a feathery ritlge : 

 head pale ash-colour. 



King Duck, Arct. Zool. ii. n. 481. Edw. t. 154. 



Length nearly 2 feet. Front pea-green, passing backwards each 

 side the neck, and including half the eye : chin, throat, and breast 

 dirty white, with a black .mark diverging each side on the former : 

 back, belly, and vent black : wings dusky with a white patch : quills 

 black, with ferruginous shafts, a white fpot on each side the outer- 

 ones : tail wedge-form, black : legs dusky. 



Female brown, the middle of each feather black. Young bird with. 

 out the protuberance on the bill, 



269. A. nigra. Bill gibbous at the base, without the 

 nail at the end, black with a line of orange halfway 

 down the middle : body entirely black. 



Scoter. Walcol i. t. 59. Will, Angl. p. 336. f. 74. 



Length 22 inches : extent 34 : weight 2 pounds 9 ounces. 



Bill yellow in the middle : head and neck glossy purplish-Mack : 

 tail wedge-form, of 16 pointed feathers : legs blaek. 



Female without the gibbosity on the bill, brown : chin and throat 

 greyish : belly varied with whitish. 



270. A.fusca. Bill gibbous at. the base, yellow, black 

 at the sides, with a reddish nail : body blackish : un- 

 der the eyes a white mark : wings with a white band. 



Velvet Duck. Br. Zool. t, 96. Walcot t. 58, 



Length 20 inches : larger than the common drake. 

 Bill broad: head black with a tinge of green : plumage inclining- 

 to brqwn beneath : under the eyes a white patch passing backwards: 

 legs red. Female brown, without the protuberance on the bill. 



271. A. histrionica. Dusky-brown, varied with white and 

 blue: over the eyes a ferruginous stripe : ears and 

 line down the sides of the neck white : neck and 

 breast crossed with a white band. Female, grey 

 brown : ears white : primary quills blackish. 



Harlequin Duck. Sozverby Brit, miscel. 1. p. 1 1. t. 6, 

 Length 17 inches : extent 26 : weight near 19 ounces. 

 Bill blackish, with a white patch from its bafe to the eyes ; 

 crown black : neck black, with a white fpot above the white line : 

 breast bluish-grey, with a white collar fpotted ai\d bounded with 

 black, beneath a white band : sides dull rufous : wings with a blue 

 fpot bounded forwards by a tranfverfq white line : legs bluish-black. 

 Female less, front and cheeks white ; ,breast and belly barred with 

 pale rufous and whitish : quills and tail dusky, 



Ti2. A, Boschas, Bill straight, yellowish-green: head 

 anil neck glossy- green, with a white collar beneath : 

 breast purplish-chesnut : wing-spot purplue-blue, 

 above which is a black and a white band : middle 

 tail-feathers, of the male, recurved. 



Wild Duck, Mallard Br. Zool. t. 97, Donov. 1. 124. Walcot t. jj. 

 Length 23 inches : extent 35 : weight 2 pounds and a half. 

 Neck with a white collar reaching more than .half way round • 

 back brown : sides and Jcapulars white, with undulate brown lines • 

 belly pale grey with brown undulate lines : 4 middle tail-feather's 

 glossy black, curved upwards, the rest grey-brown edged with white. 

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