GREY-HEADED DUCK. 
bright shining black ; and, on each side of 
the tail, it has a remarkable large, round, white 
spot. The legs and feet are of a dirty red 
colour. It has four toes on a foot ; three 
standing forwards and webbed together, and 
a narrow web on the inside of the inner toe ; 
the back toe is small, with a fin on it's under 
side." 
BufFon, whose description of this bird, though 
short, agrees with that of Edwards, remarks 
that *' the Female Collared Duck of the 
Planches Eniuminees, is much anaiagous to 
the Grey-Headed Duck of Edwards : the chief 
difrerence," adds he, " is this: .that the tints 
of the back are blacker in the plate of that na- 
turalist, and that the cheek is painted greenish." 
The Grey-Headed Duck, which is very 
common in Greenland, affords the natives 
much down. 
