The Hiftory of ANIMALS,, 
Anas teftaceo-nebulofa , fuperciliis albidis 5 rofiro pedibuf- 
que cinereis . 
The clouded\ brown Anas , with white eye-lids , and grey 
legs and beak. 
, This is a pretty and an extreamly Angular fpecies $ it does not at all exceed the 
common teal in Aze, and in colouring it excels it : the head is fmali and rounded ; 
the eyes are fmali, and their iris of a pale hazel, with more or lefs of a tinge of orange 
in it: the beak is fmali, but flatted, broad throughout, and rounded at the end in the 
manner of all the duck-kind, and refembles that of the teal in particular, by it’s turn¬ 
ing a little up at the extremity : the colour is a dufky grey, and the noflrils are large, 
oval, and black. 
The head is of a pale brown, with a tinge of reddifh ; the upper part of the neck 
alfo is of the fame colour: the eye-lids are white, and there is feme whifenefs alfo all 
about the eyes, which gives a Angularity in the general afped: the back is of a 
brown colour, 'not pale, but very bright and glofly, and clouded with grey ; the bread; 
and belly are of a whitifh colour, but with a tinge of ycllowifh-brown ; but the upper 
part of the bread:, and the lower of the belly, are elegantly variegated with clofe-fet 
fpots of black: the wings are moderately long, and the tail is fliort: the legs are 
fhort and Aender; they are of a greyifh colour, and the membrane which conneds 
the toes is black; the hinder too is very fliort and inconflderable. 
We have this fpecies on our frefli waters, but it has been overlooked by many of the 
writers on this fubjed, it’s Aze making it frequently miAaken for one of the Dob- 
chick. Gefner has deferibed it, but imperfedly, under the name of Anas Circia; and 
thofe who have Ance mentioned it, have in general borrowed his name. 
Anas rufa rofiro pedibufque cinereis . , 
The reddifo-brown Anas 3 with grey legs and beak . 
This is a Angular, but not a very beautiful, fpecies; it has lefs variegations or gaudi- 
nefs of colour than mod; of the fpecies, but it ftrikes the eye by the'remarkable tinge 
that it has almoft univerfally diffufed over it. It is of the Aze of the widgeon, or not 
quite fo large : the head is large, in proportion to the bulk of the body ; the eyes are 
fmali, and their iris is of a dead or whitifh hazel: the beak is long and moderately 
broad ; it is flatted all the way, except at the bale, and is rounded at the extremity, 
and ferrated all along the edges: the colour of the whole is a pale bluifh, with a 
tinge of grey, only that the noflrils which are large and oval are quite black. 
The back of the neck, and the whole upper furface of the body, the back wings, 
Ades, and rump, are of a very Angular colour, a reddifh-brown; the red feems of a 
deep hue, and is fo perfedly blended with the ground colour, that it fcarce any where 
difeovers itielf in any light; and the refult of the perfed union is a peculiar co¬ 
lour, approaching to what we exprefs by the term copper colour; it is unlike any thing 
that we fee elfewhere in the colouring of the duck-kind, and always claims attention : 
the wings are moderately long ; the tail is fliort; the breaft and belly are of a pale co¬ 
lour, and the legs, which are fliort, and not very robuft, are of the fame greyifh- 
blue with the beak; but the membrane which conneds the toes, and forms the web 
of the foot, is black. 
I faw three or four of thefe birds the laft winter, on Whittle-fea-meer in Cam- 
bridgefhire, and was fo lucky as to kill one of them. I And, by the people who re- 
Ade at Yaxley, and other little towns in the neighbourhood of that vafl extent of 
frefli water, that it is common there. It is Angular, that a bird, fo well known to the 
peafants, fliould be fo perfedly overlooked by the writers of our own country, but not 
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