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BRITISH BIRDS. 
brown feathers : the back, fcapulars, wing-coverts, 
and tertials, are varied from white to deeper fliades 
of pale afh, and afli-brown, and are prettily mark- 
ed with delicately freckled, or more diftindly pencil- 
led tranfverfe dark waved lines : the baftard wings, 
greater coverts, and the exterior webs of the firft 
two or three primary quills, (the interior webs of 
which are brownifli afh) and the tips of all the reft, 
are deep brown, more or lefs fprinkled with white, 
and crofted with narrow waved white lines : fome 
of the primary quills towards the body, are white j 
the bafes of the fecondaries, of the fame colour, 
form an oblique bar acrofs the wings, which is 
flopped by a fingle under tertial feather, of plain 
brown, with green reflexions : the belly is white, 
and fliaded off towards the vent with the fame 
kind of fprinkled and waved lines as thofe fo pre- 
dominant on a large portion of the plumage. The 
legs are fliort ; toes long, and, as well as the outer 
or lateral webs of the inner toes, are of a dirty pale 
blue colour ; all the joints and the reft of the webs 
are dulky. Thefe birds are faid to vary greatly in 
their plumage, as well as ftze, but thofe which have 
come under the author’s obfervation were all near- 
ly alike. 
The Scaup Duck, like others of the fame genus, 
quits the rigours of the dreary north in the winter 
months, and in that feafon only is met with, in 
fmall numbers, on various parts of the Britifli Ihores, 
