wa AY E CVI: 
The food confifts of fmall Fifh and water Infeéts, grain, roots of 
plants, &c. which it takes partly by diving into the water. The 
adult birds are as large as a {mall fowl. The colour of the fkin on 
the forehead, Briffon fays, is of a full red; Latham fays it is white, 
‘except in the feafon of incubation, when it is not of a full red, 
though it is tinged with that colour. 
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