Gadwall. 
GADWALL (Anas strepera^ LiNNiEus.) 
i\nas Strepera, Lbm. Hyst. 1. p. 200. 20. — Gmel. Syst.2 p. 520. — Ind. Orn. 2. p. 
859. 69. — Bri s. 6. p. 339. 8. t. 33. f. 1. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 452. — 2'emm. Man. 
d’Orn. 2. p. 837. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 124. — Anas platyrhynchos, Raii, Syn. 
p. 145, A. 2. — Will. p. 287. — Chipeau, Bujf. Ois, 9. p. 187. t. 12. — Gadwall, 
or Grey, Br. Zool. 2. No. 288. — Ib. fol. p. 157. t. Q. 3. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 
575. I, — Will. (Angl.) p. 374. t. 72.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 7. t. 258. — Lath. 
Syn. 6. p. 515. 16. — Wale. Syn. 2. t, 68 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 21.— Linn. 
Trans. 4. p. 111. t. 13. f. 10. — Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. p. 13. 
Provincial. — Rodge. Grey. 
This species of dirck is about the size of a widgeon ; length nineteen 
inches. The bill is two inches long, flat, and black; head, and most 
part of the neck, reddish brown, spotted with black ; sides of the head, 
throat, and fore-part of the neck, rufous white, spotted with brown ; 
the lower part of the neck, upper part of the back, breast, and scapulars, 
elegantly marked with black and white curved lines ; lower part of the 
back dusky brown ; rump, upper and under tail coverts, black ; belly 
dirty white ; sides and thighs marked with light brown lines ; the 
coverts on the ridge of the wing are pale reddish brown ; beneath that 
of a purplish red ; the lowest order of a deep black ; greater quills 
dusky ; on the lesser quills is a white patch ; the tail ash-coloured, 
edged with white ; legs orange. 
The female has the same markings in the wings, but not near so 
bright in colour ; the breast reddish brown, spotted with black ; the 
feathers on the neck, back, and rump, edged with pale reddish brown ; 
the curved lines on the neck and breast of the male are wanting in this 
sex. During the many years we have attended to the subject of Orni- 
thology, we have never been able to procure a fresh specimen of this 
duck. The trachea which, as it becomes better known, forms a strong 
