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Anas corpore ohfcuro , macula pone oculos , lineaque alarum alba. 
The dark-coloured Anas , wi/A a white fpot behind the eyes , 
jlreak on the wings . 
This is one of the larger kinds; it Is confiderably bigger than a duck, and indeed 
little inferior to the goofe in fize : the head is large and rounded; the eyes alfo are 
large : the beak is very remarkably large, and refembles that of the goofe rather than 
of the duck j it is very thick as well as broad, and is ferrated all the way round at the 
edges: it’s colour is red, except at the bafe, where it is black and gibbous: the nos¬ 
trils are oblong and wide. 
The head as well as the body are of fo deep a colour, that it appears black, but, when 
clofely examined, it is rather an extreamly dufky brown, with a tinge of iron grey: 
behind the eyes, and a little below the level with them, there is on each fide an elegant 
fpot of fnow-white : the back is of a deeper colour than any other part. 
The wings are long and well plumed ; the long feathers are all black, but the firft 
feries of the inveftient ones are white: the tail is fhort and black j the legs are red, and 
fo are the toes, but the membrane which connects them is black. 
This is the defcription of the male of this lingular fpecies; but the female, as in 
many others, differs confiderably from it: the head, in thofe of this fex, is fmaller; 
the beak alfo is confiderably different; it is not red but brown, and has not that gib- 
bofity on the upper part which characters the other, and the edges of the jaws are la- 
mellofe or dentated : the tongue is alfo fimbriated or lobated at it’s edges, and the body 
is not of that deep colour, but of a fainter brown, with the tips of the feathers 
whitifh, or at lead of a vaftly paler brown : the long feathers are fome of them black, 
and others white throughout, except at the tips, where they are alfo black : the legs 
are of a paler red than in the male, but the membrane which forms the web connect¬ 
ing the toes, is alfo black; there is the fame white fpot behind the eyes in this as in 
the male, and the temples alfo in this are white. 
This is a native of many of the northern parts of Europe, but has not been met 
with in England. It is a favourite fowl at the table, wherever it is native. Many of 
the authors, who have written on birds, have defcribed it. Jonflon calls it Anas fe- 
ra fufca; Rudbeck, Anas fera nigra; Willughby, Ray, and others, Anas niger. 
Anas alis cinereis immaculatis , urrhopygio nigro . 
The Anas , with grey wings , and a black rump. 
This fpecies refembles the widgeon in mod particulars, but it is very nearly equal 
to the duck in fize : the head is large and rounded, and the eyes are but fmall ; the 
beak is long, but it is not fo broad as in many of the duck-kind : the upper chap is 
of a lead colour, and has a black unguis at it’s edge; the lower is entirely black, and 
both are ferrated round the edges; the iris of the eye is of a reddifh colour. 
The head and neck are of a lingular brown colour, with fome faint tinge of red, 
but more of yellow in it: the middle part of the bread: is white, but the extremities 
of the feathers have a yellowifh tinge; the lower part of the bread, toward the 
belly, is alfo white, but it is variegated with* lines of brown : the wings are long, and 
their principal feathers are all of a fimple blackifh-grey, without any fpot or variega¬ 
tion : the tail is fhort, and it’s feathers are alfo of one fimple colour, which is a grey- 
ifh-brown : the lower part of the neck and the rump are black, and the back is va¬ 
riegated with undulated lines of grey and brown. 
The legs are fhort and fender, and of a dufky lead colour: the membrane con¬ 
necting the toes is black. 
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