4^5 The Hifiory of A N I M A L 8 * 
bent at the extremity : between the eyes, bat lower, and toward the top of the nos¬ 
trils, there hands a red, flefliy protuberance, of the figure of a common red cherry 2 
the temples have no feathers on them, but are covered with a naked, fcarlet, flefhy 
matter, of a granulated furface. 
_ The body is principally black, but it has more or lefs variegations of white, and 
differs alfo in the difpofition of them. 
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We have this in mod parts of Europe tame, but where it is wild is not certainly 
known. All the late writers on birds have mentioned it. Aldrovand calls it Anas In- 
dica; Ray, Anas mofehata ; and Willughby, Anas Lybica Bellonii. The whole bird 
has a perfumed fmell, approaching to that of mufk. It is a very quick breeder, and 
lays a great number of eggs, which are large and well tailed. 
Anas crijla dependente , corpore mgro, ventre maculaqm 
alarum albis. 
The Anas , with a hanging crejl , a black body , and a 
white belly , and a white fpot on the wings a 
This is a very beautiful bird, and is about the fize of our common duck : the head 
is large and round; the eyes are moderately large and bright; their iris is of a fine 
gold yellow : the beak is moderately long, and very broad ; it is ferrated all the way 
at the edge, and rounded at the end, and is of a deep blue colour throughout, except 
at the extremity, where it is black: the noflrils are large, and between them there 
runs in upon the beak an angle of feathers: the ears are finall, as is indeed the cafe in 
all the birds that are formed for diving. 
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The upper part of the head is of a dufky purple colour, tending to black, or per¬ 
haps, more properly fpeaking, it is black, with a tinge of purple, whence it is in 
Venice, and fome other places, called Capo nigro, or the black head, and it has a 
cirrhus or crefl growing on the back part of the head, and hanging down upon the 
neck, of an inch and a half in length : the neck is black ; the fhoulders, back, rump, 
and covering feathers of the wings are alfo in general black, or of a very deep colour, 
nearly approaching to that. 
The wings are fhort, but they are well feathered ; the four outer long feathers are 
of the fame colour with the body, but the others are many of them variegated, more 
or lefs, with a bright fnowy white: the tail is very fhort, and is competed of fourteen 
feathers, all black throughout. 
The fore-part of the neck and the top of the breafl are black, but the red of the 
breafi; and the whole belly are of a filvery white, and the fide feathers, and thofe 
which cover the thighs, are of the fame colour: the legs are fhort, and of a deep 
duiky bluifh-black : the feet are large and webbed thoroughly $ the toes are long; the 
membrane which connects them is black j the claws are fhort and obtufe: the body 
is thick and fhort; the fides of the head are, in fome of the birds of this ipecies, 
decorated with a white fpot, each way at the angles of the beak, but this is not uni- 
verfal. 
We have this fpecies kept in fome places. It is a native of the fea-coafts of fome of 
the northern parts of Europe. Moft of the authors who have written on birds have 
deferibed it. Gefner calls it Anas fuligula prima; Aldrovand, Querquedula criilata 
five Colypus Bellonii; Ray, and others, Anas criftata. We call it the crefted or tuft- 
ed'Duck, 
Anas 
