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ginous Duck, in the following terms, u The 
weight was twenty one ounces : the bill is 
long and flatted, rounded a little at the 
base, serrated along the edges of each 
mandible, and furnished with a nail at the 
end of the upper, the colour of a pale 
blue. The head, neck, and whole upper 
part of the bird is of an agreeable reddish 
brown : the throat, breast, and belly of the 
same colour, but paler : the legs of a pale 
blue ; but the webs of the feet black. This 
species was killed in Lincolnshire." Such 
is the brief description given of the bM by 
that Gentleman. In the Arctic Zoology, 
published by the same author, we find in 
the description of the Red Duck, a little 
difference from that of the Ferruginous 
Duck of the British Zoology, to which it 
refers. It will be observed that no mention 
is made respecting the difference of sexes, 
or whether that above described, was male 
or female. 
From the time of Pennant to the present 
day, no bird has puzzled the Ornithologist 
more than the Ferruginous Duck. Indeed 
it must be confessed that many of this tribe 
