The Hiftory ^ANIMAL 
Arias fufca gutture alhicante 3 pedibus fanguineis . 
The brown Anas , ^ white throaty and with 
red, legs . 
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This is alfo a very elegant bird, though it have lefs variegation in it’s colouring than 
many of the others: the head is large, and flatted on the crown ; the eyes are large and 
black ; the beak is nearly as long, and full as broad, as in our duck, and is of a gloffy 
black: the head is of a deep dufky brown, fuch as our painters exprefs by the term 
umber colour; but on each fide, near the eyes, there is a fmall roundifh fpot, of a 
pale lemon colour: the hinder part of the neck is of the fame dufky colour with the 
head, but the throat is all the way down of a fnow-white : the back is of a very ele¬ 
gant brown, not fo deep as that of the head, and with fome tinge of the olive along 
with it: the bread: and belly are of a pale grey, with a colour of gold yellow: the 
tail is black ; the wings are of the fame brown with the back, only there is a tinge 
of greenifh viiible on every part of them : the tips of the feathers are many of them 
white, and in the middle of the wing there is a large fpot of a bluifh-green, very ele¬ 
gant : the legs are fhort, and of a fine deep red ; the feet are very broad and web¬ 
bed j the hinder toe is fhort and inconfiderable. 
This is a native of South America. The authors who have written on the animals 
of the Brafils have all defcribed it, and from them the red of the ornithologids. Ray 
and Willughby call it Anas fylvedris Brafilienfis dida Mareca fecunda Marcgravii, 
The flefh is much edeemed in that part of the world. 
M E R G U a 
H E beak of the Mergus of is a cylindric figure, and hooked at the extremity ^ 
and it’s denticulations are of a Tubulated form. 
Mergus crijla dependents 3 capite nigro-Ccerulefcente col 
lari albo . 
The Mergus , with a hanging crefl , a bluifh-black head\ 
and a circle of white round the neck . 
This is a moderately large and a very Angular bird ; it’s weight, without the fea¬ 
thers, is about four pounds ; it’s body is of an oblong and flender form, and the back 
flat: the male and female are fo very different, both in their form and colouring, that 
our common people call them by two diftind names, and many of the writers on 
birds have described them as diftind fpecies. 
In the male, which we call the Goofeander, the head and the upper part of the 
neck are throughout of a dark green, with a fhade of a deep violet blue, a very beau¬ 
tiful and a very gloffy tint, but fo deep, that in many lights it carries an appearance of 
black : the lower part of the neck is of a bright gloffy white : the middle of the back, 
and the exterior of the feathers of the fhoulders, are black; the others are white, but 
the lower or hinder part of the back is of a dark grey : the rump, and the fide feathers 
near it, as alfo the feathers which cover the thighs, are variegated with tranfverfe lines 
of a deep grey, with fome tinge of brown : the tail is compofed of eighteen feathers, 
and is entirely grey. 
The wings are large; the long feathers in them are twenty-fix in number : the ten 
outer ones are black, the four next to thefe are black alfo, but their tips are white; 
the five which fucceed thefe are, on the contrary, white, with the bottoms black 5 
the others, or the fix or feven next the body, are alfo white, hut with the outer edges 
black: the covering feathers are very beautifully variegated with black and white, 
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