PLATE CCXXL 



ANAS SPONSA. 

 SUMMER DUCK, female and young. 

 Anseres. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 fringed and obtufe : three fore-toes conne6led, the hind one folitary. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNOiSl Y MS, 



Creft pendent, double,, varied with green, blue and white, male, 

 Lefs : body brown, beneath dirty white, varied with brown : and 

 triangular white fpots : female. 



Anas Sponsa: crifta dependente duplici viridi, caeruleo alboque 

 varia mas. 



Femina minor : corpus fufcum fubtus fordide 

 album fufco varium, maculis triquetris pallidis. 

 Gmel, Syfi. Nat. 1. p. 539^.— Lath, Ind, Orn^ 

 n. 871. 97. 



* Femina minor, pedtoris raaculls magis obfoletis Gmel. 65. 



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