130 
GADWALL. 
Jims STEEPEHJl. 
[Plate LXXL— Fig. 1, Jllak.] 
Gmel. Syst. I, p. 520, JVo. 20. — Ind. Orn, p. 859, No. 69. Gen. Syn. Ill, p. 515, No. 61. — 
Temm. Man. d'^Otm. p. 837. — Bewick, II, p. 314, — The Gadwallor Willughby, 
p, 374.— Ze Chipeau, Briss. VI, p. 339, 8, pi. 33, Jig. 1. — Buff, IX, p. 187. PL Enl. 
958. — Arct. Zool. II, p. 303, L. Br. ZooL No. 288. — Peale’s Museum^ No. 2750 ; fe - 
maky 2751. 
THIS beautiful Duck I have met with in very distant parts of 
the United States, viz. on the Seneca lake in New York, about the 
twentieth of October, and at Louisville on the Ohio, in February. 
I also shot it near Big-bone Lick in Kentucky. With its particular 
manners or breeding place, I am altogether unacquainted. 
The length of this species is twenty inches, extent thirty-five 
inches ; irides dark hazel ; bill two inches long, formed very much 
like that of the Mallard, and of a brownish black, upper mandible 
greatly pectinated ; crown dusky brown, rest of the upper half of 
the neck brownish white, both thickly speckled with black ; lower 
part of the neck, and breast, dusky black, elegantly ornamented 
with large concentric semicircles of white ; scapulars waved with 
lines of white on a dusky ground, but narrower than that of the 
breast ; primaries ash ; greater wing-coverts black, and several of 
the lesser coverts, immediately above, chestnut red, which, with 
the white speculum, form three broad conspicuous bands on the 
wing, of chestnut, black, and white ; belly dull white ; rump and 
tail-coverts black, glossed with green ; tail tapering, pointed, of a 
pale brown ash, edged with white ; flanks dull white, elegantly 
waved; terlials long, and of a pale brown; legs orange red. 
