BRITISH BIRDS. 
33f 
SCAUP DUCK. 
(Anas Marila, Lin.) 
This fpecies is lefs than the Mallard ; feme of 
them, it is faid, weighing only a pound and a half, 
while others exceed that weight by eight or nine 
ounces, and meafure, when ftretched out, nearly 
twenty inches in length, and thirty-two in breadth. 
The bill is broad and flat, more than two inches 
long, from the corners of the mouth to the tip, and 
of a fine pale blue or lead colour, with the nail 
black: irides bright deep yellow: the head and 
upper half of the neck are black, glofled with 
green : the lower part of the latter, and the bread, 
are of a fleek plain black : the throat, rump, up- 
per and under coverts of the tail, and part of 
the thighs, are of the fame colour, but dull, and 
more inclining to brown. The tail, when fpread 
out, is fan-fliaped, and confifts of fourteen fliort 
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