BRITISH BIRDSi= 373 
mixed with dufky* The tail confifts of fourteen 
very fhort feathers : the legs are of a dark lead co- 
lour | webs black. The female is of a browner 
colour than the male, and has no crefl. 
The habitSj manners, and haunts of this fpecies 
are much the fame as thofe of the Golden-eye, and 
they return northward about the fame time. La- 
tham fays the French allow thefe birds to be 
eaten on maigre days, and in lent ; as they do alfo 
the Scoter: but though the flefli of the latter is 
now and then tolerable, that of the Tufted Duck 
is feldom otherwife than excellent.^* 
