PLATE CXLVII. 



ANAS COLLARIS. 

 COLLARED DUCK. 



Anseres. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Bill convex, and obtufe, the edges divided into lamellate teeth : 

 tongue fringed, obtufe : three fore toes connefted, the pofterior one 

 folitary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Anas CoLLARiS. Black-brown: beneath white: head glofied 

 with green-violet : neck encircled with a fub- 

 ferruginous ring : wing-fpot cinereous. 



A fpecimen of this curious Duck occurred to us in the month of 

 January, 1801, among a number of other wild fowl expofed for fale 

 in J^eadenhall-market, London ; and fo far as we have been hitherto 

 able to determine, it appears to be not only new as a Britifh bird, but 

 altogether undefcribed. Its fize rather exceeds that of the common 

 widgeon. The colour above is blackifli, as is likewife the head and 

 neck, the former of which is richly gloffed with purple and greeia, 



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