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ANAS SPECTABILIS. 
KING DUCK. 
Beak compressed at the base with a 
black feathery keel ; head hoary. 
Anas Spectabilis, Lin. Gme. 
Le Canard a Tete Grise, Buff. 
Grey headed Duck, Edwards, Turton. 
King Duck, Pen. Lath. Mont, 
This species of Duck, according to the 
Linnaean arrangement of this genus, ought 
to have followed the history of the Shiel- 
drake, page 208. Temminck in his work 
on the Birds of Europe, considered the 
Anas Spectabilis as no other than the 
young of Anas Mollissima. The ac- 
count he gives of that bird is as follows : 
" The birds of the first year have the 
crown of the head, cheeks and upper 
parts of the neck covered with very soft 
and downy feathers, of an ash-coloured 
brown, spotted with dark brown; from the 
