BRITISH BIRDS. 
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MALLARD, 
OR COMMON WILD DUCK. 
{^Anas lofchaSi Lin . — Le Canard Sauvage^ BufF. J 
The Wild Drake weighs from thirty-fix to forty 
ounces, and meafures twenty-three inches in length, 
and thirty-five in breadth. The bill is of a yellow- 
ifli green colour, not very flat, about an inch broad, 
and two and a half long, from the corners of the 
mouth to the tip of the nail : the head and upper 
half of the neck, are of a gloflfy deep changeable 
green, terminated in the middle of the neck by a 
white collar, v/ith which it is nearly encircled : the 
lower part of the neck, breaft, and fhoulders, are 
of a deep vinous chefnut : the covering fcapular 
feathers are of a kind of filvery white ; thofe un- 
derneath rufous 5 and both are prettily croffed with 
