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A winter inhabitant of the Britifh ifles. This bird is fixteen inches 

 in length ; the male in general black, finely glofled with purple and 

 green, with the belly white, and the creft long and pendent. The 

 female is like the male, except in having the colour of the plumage 

 more inclining to brown, and being dellitute of a crefl. In the young 

 birds, the head, neck, and breall are chefnut ; the back, wings, and 

 tail black. 



The Tufted Duck inhabits moft parts of Europe, and northern 

 Afia, vifiting, like many other of the Duck tribe, the fouthern cli- 

 mates in winter, and retiring northward in the fiimmer to breed } 

 the flefli is excellent. 



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