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when speaking of this species of Dock, 
jrsthat u some solitary ones are found 
now and then, amongst the Eider Ducks, to 
which they have a pretty close resemblance, 
only that they are less. This bird is dis- 
tinguished by its bill, at the root of which 
there is a high round cartilaginous bunch, 
which projects from the head, but is some- 
what compressed; it is naked, and of a 
bright red colour, so that it is almost like 
a comb. Along the summit of it there is a 
small black stripe of very fine feathers, 
which divides it as it were into two flat por- 
tions. Towards the head this stripe splits 
into two, one of which proceeds on the 
one side, and the other on the other, so 
that they surround the excrescence in two 
round bows, which descend towards the 
edge of the upper mandible, and end a 
little before the extremity of the aperture 
of the bill." 
The female is less than the other sex; 
the protuberance on the beak not so large, 
nor so high coloured ; the whole plumage 
brown, the middle of each feather dusky; 
six of the lesser quills are tipped with 
