74 BIRDS. PALMIPEDES. 55. Anas. 



Female, reddish-brown fpotted with black, and the middle tail- 

 feathers not recurved. It varies much in colours by domestication. 



273. A. Marila. Bill bluish: head and neck black, with 

 a green gloss : breast black : back and wings pale 

 grey, with minute undulate black lines: wing-spot 

 and belly white. 



Scaup Duck. Br. Zool.t. too. Walcot i. /. 60. 



Length about 21 inches : weight from 30 to 35 ounces. 



Bill with a black nail: iris golden : head and neck fometimes 

 varying in colours : lower-part of the bach, rump, tail and vent 

 black : quills dusky : legs lead-colour. 



271. K.framata. Bill black, with a white ring at the 

 base : body ferruginous-brown : wing-spot and belly 

 white. 



White-faced Duck. Sowerby Brit, mifcel. 2. p. 5. t. 62. 



Size of the last. Head brown : neck ferruginous: sides with 

 fmall white fpots : primary quills black : tail rounded : legs black. 



275. A. Tadorna. Bill turned upwards, red, with a knob 

 at the base : head greenish-black : breast with an 

 orange-bay band crossed by a brownish stripe run- 

 ning down the belly : wing-spot glossy copper- 

 green. 



Shieldrake. Donovan t. 71. Albin t. 94. Walcot t.^j. 



Length 2 feet : breadth 3 feet 6 : weight 2 pounds to ounces 

 5/// with a black nail : iris dusky .- lower part of the neck white : 

 middle of the back white: shoulders and fome of the fcapulars 

 black : first quills black, the next violet, inner-ones ferruginous, 

 the last white : belly white : tail white, more or less tipt with 

 black : legs red. 



876. A. clypeata. Bill black, dilated and rounded at the 

 point, with an incurved nail : head glossy, violet- 

 green : breast white : belly chesnut : wing-coverts 

 pale blue. 



Shoveler. Albin i. t. 97. 98. Hayes t. 27. Walcot t. 67. 



Length 21 inches : extent 2 feet 7 : weight 22 ounces. 



Bill much fpread at the end : iris yellow : breast and fcapulars 

 white : back brown : greater vAng-coverts brown, tipt with blue : 

 iving-fpot green : vent black : outer tail-feathers white, the rest 

 edged with white : legs orange-red, 



277, A. rubens. Bill brownish-yellow, broad at the end : 

 body brown : throat and breast reddish-brown : 

 wing-spot purple, edged with white : tail short, 

 whitish. 



Red-breasted Shoveler. Br, Zool. ii. p. 597. n. 281. 



Size of the.common Duck. Iris yellow : back brown, paler to« 

 wards the sides : vent bright brown, with darker fpots : legs reddish* 

 brown. Female, with the wing-fpot blue, 



278. A. streptera. Bill black: head reddish-brown spotted 

 with black : wing-spot black, with a rufous margin on 

 the fore-part, and a white one behind. 



Gadwall, Walcot t. 68. Will. Angl.p. 374- t. 72. 



Length 19 inches : rather less than A. Penelope. 



Sides of the head, throat, and fore-part of the neck pale rufous with 

 brown fpots : lower-part of the neck, upper-part of the back and 

 breast brown with curved white lines : lower-part of the back brown: 

 rump and vent black : belly and sides with whitish and grey-brown 

 lines ; faiYash*cpiour edged with white : legs orange. 



