PLATE CLXXI 



VELVET DUCK. 



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Anseres. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 fringed, obtufe : three fore toes conne6ted, the pofterior one folitary* 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : lower eye-lid and fpot on the wing white. 

 Anas Fusca: nigricans, palpebra inferiore, fpeculoque alarum 



alb is. Linn, Fn, Suec. 109, GmeL Syjl, Nat. 

 507. 6. 



Great Black Duck. Ray, Orn. p, 141. A, 4. PVilL Orn. 



p, 363, /. 70. 



VsLVET Duck. Lat/?, Gen, Syn. 3. 2, p. 48^. «. 37. 



Allied to the Scoter Duck but is more rare. Length twenty 

 inches. 



PLATE 



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