The variety known by the name of the Rouen Duck, is of 

 the fame fpecies, only of very large growth ; we have feen 

 one that weighed upwards of feven pounds, the plumage 

 was nearly like the Mallard, we obferved no other difference, 

 than that the ring round the neck was confiderably larger, 

 and the beautiful chefnut colour on the neck and breaft was 

 mottled with white ; this variety retains a large Jfhare of its 

 wild nature, and often quits its domeftic alfociates for its 

 former haunts, where it breeds with the wild ones, and is often 

 taken with them in the decoys. 



