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The Little Brown and TVhite Duck. 
T HIS Bird is about the Bigaffs of a Teal, and pretty much like it in Shape, 
tho’ very different from it in Colour: Some of its principal Meafures are as fol¬ 
low ; the Length of the Bill from the Point to the Angles of the Mouth is an Inch 
and a Quarter; the Wing when clofed is feven Inches long 5 the Leg below the Knee 
an Inch and a Quarter j the middle Toe near two Inches long. 
The Bill is Black, toothed on its Edges,, and a little Matter hooked at the Point of 
the upper Mandible; the Feathers round the Bafe of the upper Part of the Bill are 
White, and point with an Angle into the Bill in the Middle, the Bill itfelf having 
two Angles pointing to the Forehead on each Side. There is a Line of dufky Fea¬ 
thers between the Bill and Eye, which parts the White into Spots above and beneath 
the Line; it hath alfo a white Spot behind each Eye, about the Place of the Ears; 
the Remainder of the Head is Brown, as is the Neck and Beginning of the Bread, 
but lighter on the Fore-part of the Neck and Bread;; the Back, Wings and Tail are 
of a darkifh-brown Colour $ the greater Quills of the Wings darkeft of all, almofl 
Black ; the Covert-Feathers of the Wings are of a lighter and brighter Brown 5 the 
Covert-Feathers within Side of the Wings are of a dufky Colour, with a little dirty 
White intermixed j the Sides under the Wings are of a dufky Brown, fainter than 
the Feathers on the Back. The Bread: from Brown gradually becomes White, tranf- 
verdy marked with light Brown, as far as the Thighs; the Thighs, lower Belly, and 
Covert-Feathers under the Tail, being of a lighter and darker Brown, tranfverdy 
mixed in broken Lines ; the Legs and Feet are of a dufky Colour, tho 5 fomething 
of a dull Rednefs appears on the Fore-parts of the Legs and the upper Sides of the 
Toes; the Webs that join the Toes are blacked; j the Stru&ure of the Feet is like the. 
lad; defcribed. 
This Bird was brought from Hudfon’ s-Bay by Mr. IJham , to whofe Curiofity and good Na¬ 
ture I am beholden for the greateft Part of the Subjed-Matter of this third Part of my Hijiory 
of Birds and I believe the curious Part of the World will not think themfelves lefs obliged 
to Mr. IJham than I acknowledge myfelf to be. 1 believe this Bird hath not been hitherto 
figured or defcribed. As I have treated of many Birds from Hudfon’ s-Bay , it will not be amifs 
£0 fay fomething of that Part of the World, which I lhall make bold to extrad from Mr. 
Ellis’s Voyage to Hudfon’s-Bay, when he is fpeaking of the fartheft Part to which they went 
in IVager Slreights, he fays. “ I cannot help however taking Notice that in afcending thefe 
“ Mountains we had at once as great, as gloomy, and as awful a Profped as perhaps ever 
u aftonifhed mortal Eyes. While we walked along the Beach, the ridged Rocks above feem’d 
“ pendant over our Heads •, in fome Places there were Falls of Water dafhing from Cliff to 
sc Cliff; from others hung prodigious Ificles in Rows one behind another, like the Pipes of a 
4 ‘ vaft Organ ; but the molt tremendous Part of the Scene was the fhatter’d Crags which 
“ lay at our Feet, and appear’d plainly to have burft from the Mountain Tops, thro’the 
“ expanfive Power of the rigorous Frofts, and fo rowled with inexpreffible Fury down the 
“ Sides, till they reached thofe Places where their Ruins now lay : I call them Ruins, for fuch 
“ they properly were ; and if there is fomething that deeply affects us when we behold either 
c ‘ the Wafte cf War, or the Devaftations of Time,, it may be eafily conceived that fomething 
14 much more terrible mult be felt from the Sight of the amazing, Relicks of the Wreck of 
“ Nature.” 
FINIS. 
