BIRDS. ANSERES. iji. Anas. 2U 
’il^na. Black ; head and upper part of the neck teflaceous ; Crown 
reddifli, (of the male) crefted; wings beneath and at 
the edge white ; tail bro wn. Red-crejled Ducli^ 
Inhabits the Cajpian Sea and the lakes of vafl delers of I ar- 
tary ; iolitary ; is fomelinies found in Italy and Barhary. 
Bill cu'niine ; irids brown ; crejt rounded, tumid ; brown, 
red on the foie-part. 
Female brown ; bill reddifli ; crejl o. 
Olive-black ; head, throat, bread: and flanks chefnut ; 
belly white ; rump black ; vent fnowy. 
Olive-tufted Duel. 
Inhabits the Tanais : i6 inches long ; feeds on vegetables, 
feeds, and fometimes fifli ; migrates ; fleflr good. 
Male; head tumid behind, not crefted; irids whitifh. 
Female ; Icls, dirty-reddifh where the male is chefnut ; belly 
whitifh, waved ; back more inclining to rufous. 
Grey fpotted ; beneath and rump whitifh with cinereous 
fpots ^ wing-fpot blackifh, white on the fore and 
hind-part, Arabian Duck. 
Inhabits Arabia. 
Bill yellow, black in the middle ; le^s yellowidi. 
Bill and rump black ; neck cinereous, with white femi-, 
circles ; belly whitifh without fpots. 
Alexandrian Duck. 
Inhabits Alexandria ; kgs yellowifh-afh. 
Brown j wings above black, beneath white, edged with 
brown ; quill-feathers 4—20, white in the middle. 
Egyptian Duck, 
Inhabits Alexandria. 
Bill brown, beneath black ; chin black ; belly and iail-coverts 
white ; kgs blue-alh. 1 
Bill beneath yellow ; wing-fpot obliquely divided, upper 
half filky-green, lower black, before and behind 
white. 
Inhabits Arabia, 
lead-colour ; chin white; crown brown; back brown, 
the feathers edged with white ; belly whitifh > gtey. 
Betlbul. 
