THE GADWALL. 
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^0, AlfAS STltEPERAf LIXN. AN1> WILSOJf. — THE GAHWALL. 
elate LXXl. FIG. I,. — EDIXBUHGH COLLEGE AIUSEDAI. 
This beautifiil duck I have met with in very liistant 
of the United States, viz. on the Seneca Lake, in 
York, about the 20th of October, and at Louisville, 
jV the Ohio, in Fcbi-uary. I also shot it near Big Bone 
in Kentucky. With its particular manners or 
^‘ding place, I am altogether nnacquaintod. 
n.Tlie length of this species is tnenty inches; extent, 
^irty.oue inches ; bill, two inches long, formed very 
Ich like that of the mallard, and of a brownish black; 
1 ^" u, dusky brown; re.st of the upper half of the neck, 
1 OWnish white, both thickly speckled with black ; 
ttn part of the neck and breast, dusky black, elegantly 
j^^niented with large concentric semicircles of white ; 
^*Pulars, waved with lines of white on a dusky ground’ 
t narrower than that of the breast; primaries, ash; 
eater wing-coverts, black, and several of the lesser 
^.Wets, immediately above, chestnut red; speculum. 
Cl®’ ^’•'‘'dei’ed below with black, forming three broad 
^ "d.s on the wing of chestnut, black, and white ; belly, 
C ’ ‘’""’I’ tail-coverts, black, glossed n ith 
eij, : tail, tapering, pointed, of a pale brown ash, 
tsrt- ’ danks, dull white, elegantlv waved ; 
t'als, long, and of a pale brown ; leg.s, orange red. 
tne female I have never seen. Latham describes it 
**«ll , having the colours on the wings 
marked the same as the mate ; the hreast, 
?ec!' 
“teck I’m" n, s|>otted ndtli black ; the feathers on the 
the same, 
'jad of black ; and those elegant semicircular lines 
he neck and breast wholly wanting.” 
"f th of this duck is excellent, and the windpipe 
Jtc male is furnished with a large labyrinth, 
t,' -h® ffadwall is very rare in the northern parts of the 
^ted States ; is said to inhabit England in winter. 
