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The Hiftory cj A N I M A L S, 
Anas nigro alboque varkgaua , capita nigro virefcenie , Jtnii 
0m alba macula. SCjft (ESOiBfclt- 
The Anas , with a greenijh-black head, a black and white 
body j <3 w&’te fpot at the mouth . 
This is a very beautiful fpecies : the body is fhort and thick ; the head is large and 
rounded ; the eyes are large, and their iris is of a fine bright yellow, approaching to 
that of burnifhed gold : the beak is black 5 it is not long, but very broad, and is much 
broader at the bafe than at the extremity 5 it is ferrated all the way round 
The head is of a very deep colour, approaching to black, but with a fine tinge of 
a grafs-green thrown over it 5 and at the angles of the beak there is on each fide a 
fpot of white, which is round, and has in fome degree the appearance of an eye, 
whence the Italians have called the bird Quattro occhii, or four eyes: the neck is 
fhort 5 the whole of that, as alfo the fhoulders, the breaft, and the whole belly are of 
a fine filvery white : the lower part of the back is all over black : the wings are vari¬ 
egated with black and white, and that in a very particular manner ; for the middle 
feathers are all white, and the outer and inner are black : it is not only the long fea¬ 
thers or remiges that are of thefe feparate colours, but the covering ones too, thofe 
over the white long feathers being white, and thofe over the black ones black ; from the 
fhoulders there hang a number of long feathers down on each fide of the back ; thefe 
alfo have a little white in them, by way of variegation : the tail is compofed of fixteen 
feathers, and is entirely black. 
The legs are very fhort, but they are robufi and thick; the feet are large, and very 
deeply webbed : the toes are long, and they have a blackifhnefs about the joints, other- 
wife the whole foot, as well as the leg, is of a deep yellow, with a tinge of orange s 
the membranes which connect the toes are of a dufky colour 5 the hinder toe is fmall, 
but it is increafed in breadth by a membrane on each fide, and it’s claw is black, but 
very fhort. 
The female differs confiderably from the male in this fpecies: the head is of a blu- 
ifh-red ; the back, the fides, and the tail are brown : the bread: is of a grey in the an¬ 
terior part, and is variegated at the fides with undulated lines of a pale or hoary colour, 
and the belly is white : the wings are fpotted, and variegated with black and white, 
as in the male, but they have more white than in that fex; the legs alfo are of a 
paler yellow. 
We have this fpecies about the fea-coafts of fome parts of England, but it is far 
from common with us, though in fome other of the northern parts of Europe it is 
very frequent. All the writers on birds have defcribed it. Gefner calls it Clangula $ 
Aldrovand, Clangula and Anas Platyrynchos mas; and mod of the others have called 
it either Clangula, or Platyrynchos Anas. We, from the remarkable yellow of the 
iris of the eye, call it the Golden-eye. 
Anas macula alarum rufa , nigra, alba . 
The Anas , with the wings variegated 
with brown , black , and white . 
This is of a middle fize, between ,the teal and the duck, though more the fize of 
the duck than of the other, and it’s'body is long and {lender : the head is moderately 
large and rounded; the eyes are large and piercing in their afpeft; the beak is form¬ 
ed like that of the teal, broad and flatted, and armed with it’s unguis at the end : 
the under chap of it is yellow, and the fides of the upper chap are alfo yellow, but it’s 
middle is black: the noftriis are large, and the yellow of the beak has a tinge of the 
orange in it. 
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