ROUND-CRESTED DUCK. 
It's breast and belly are white ; the bill, the 
face, the neck, and the back, are black. The 
quills of the tail and wings are brown ; the in- 
nermost in the wings being black, and marked 
with a white streak. This bird is nearly as large 
as a Duck. The Female is entirely brown, and 
it's crest is smaller than that of the Male. 
Fernandez lias described both, under the Mexi- 
can name Ecatototl, with the epithet Wind- 
Bird, without mentioning the reason. These 
birds are found in Mexico, and Carolina, as 
well as in Virginia, and haunt the rivers and 
pools. 
lie gives, as the specific cliara6ler of this 
bird, tire Mergus Cucullatus, that " it's crest 
is ball-shaped, and white on both sides; it's 
body, brown above, and white below." 
This ball-shape of the crest, how^ever, wc 
find, in the accurate Edwards, is not precisely 
the fad. 
