BRITISH BIRDS. 
^ 355 
BIMACULATED DUCK. , 
CLUCKING DUCK. ' 
(Anas Glocitans.) 
Length twenty inches. Bill deep lead co- 
lour; nail black: irides brown: crown brown^ 
changeable with green, ending in a ftreak of brown 
at the hinder part of the head, with a fmall creft : 
between the bill and eye, and behind each ear, fer- 
ruginous fpots, the firft round, the laft oblong and 
large : throat of a fine deep purple : the reft of the 
head bright green, continued in ftreaks down the 
neck: breaft a light ferruginous brown, fpotted 
with black : hind part of the neck and back dark 
brown, waved with black : wing-coverts afh-colour- 
ed ; lower coverts ftreaked with ruft-colour : fca- 
pulars cinereous : quills the fame, inclined to brown : 
fecondaries fine green, ending in a fhade of black, 
edged with white : tail-coverts deep changeable 
green : twelve feathers in the tail ; the two middle- 
moft black, the others brown, edged with white : 
belly dufky, finely granulated : legs fmall, yellow : 
webs dulky.’^ “ Taken in a decoy in England. 
Has been met with along the Lena, and about the 
lake Baikal. Has a fingular note, fomewhat like 
clucking.’^ Latham. 
