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TAB. LXII. 
ANAS franata. 
White-faced Duck, 
Class 2. Aves. Order 
Spec. Char. Fusco-ferruginous. A spot on the 
wings, abdomen, and a ring round the head at 
the base of the bill, white. 
Syn. Anas frasnata. Sparm. Mus. Carls, v. 2. pi. 38. 
The White-faced, or Laughing Goose, {Anas Barnacla,) 
as it is often called, is well known; but we have not seen 
the White-faced Duck mentioned any where as British. 
My good friend the Rev. James Dalton, F. L. S., has 
sent me a young and an old one. As this gentleman does 
not consider them rare in Yorkshire, it is rather to be 
wondered at that there is no account of them except in 
Sparrman’s Musseum Carlsonianum, from specimens shot 
in Aland, in Norway. 
We cannot agree with the idea that it is the female of 
Anas Mania, as upon comparing the essential parts, par- 
ticularly the beak, they do not warrant that idea. Sparr- 
man’s description being a good one, we cannot do better 
than merely to make a translation of it. 
Beak black, rather broad. Head brown, with a white 
ring round the base of the beak. Neck ferruginous. The 
