Clafs II. ] B 
the plumage is of a fine black, and of the foft and 
delicate appearance of velvet: the legs and feet 
are red ; the webs black : the female is entirely 
of a deep brown color; the marks behind each 
I R D S. 153 
ear and bn the wings excepted : the bill is of the 
fame colors with that of the male 5 but wants the 
protuberance at the bafe of it, which Linnaeus 
gives the male. % 
* Faun. fuec. laji edit. 39. 
SPECIES VIII. The Scoter. Plate <© 6 
Black diver, or Scoter. JVil. orn. 
3 66 . 
Ran fyn. av. 141. 
La macreufe. Ray's Letters 161. 
Date's hift. Harwich. 405. 
Briffon av. VI. 420. Tab. 38. Fig. 2. 
Anas nigra. Lin. fyft. 123. 
\ H I S fpecies weighs two pounds nine 
ounces: the length is twenty-two in- 
ches $ the breadth thirty-four : the 
middle of the bill is of a fine yellow, r the reft is 
black : both male and female wants the hook at 
the end } but on the bafe of the bill of the former 
is a large knob, divided by a fiflure in the middle. 
The tail confifts of fixteen fharp pointed feathers, 
of which the middle are the longeft. The color 
of the whole plumage is black, that of the head 
and neck gloffed over with purple : the legs are 
black. This bird is allowed in the romijh church 
to be eaten in Lent , and is the macreufe of the 
French. It is a great diver, faid to live almoft 
conftantly at fea, and to be taken in nets placed 
under water. 
SPECIES IX. The tufted Duck. Plate 6. 
JV'd. orn. 365. 
Rail fyn. av. 142. 
Straufs endt. Gefner av. 107, 
HIS fcarce weighs two pounds : the 
length is fifteen inches and a half: the 
bill is of abluifh grey, the hook black. 
The head is adorned with a thick, but fhort pen¬ 
dent creft. The belly, lefter quil feathers, and un- 
Glauchim minus. Briffon av. VI. 
411. Tab. 27. Fig. 1. 
Anas fuligula. Lin. fyft. 123. 
der coverts of the wings are of a pure white : the 
reft of the plumage is black, varied about the 
head with purple : the tail is very fhort: the 
legs of a bluifh grey ; the webs black. The female 
wants the creft. 
SPECIES X. The Scaup Duck. 
mi. orn. 3 6 5 - 
Rail fyn. av. 142. 
Anas mariia. Faun. fuec. 39. 
F —|—^ H IS we defcribed from a ftult (kin 
I very well preferved *. It feemed left 
Jee. than the common duck. The bill was 
broad, fiat, and of a greyilh blue color: the head 
* When this happens we have recourfe to Mi. Willoughby for 
weight and meafurements, whenever he hath noted them. 
Glaucium minus ftriatum. Briffon 
av. VI. 416. 
and neck black gloffed with green : the breaft 
black : the back, the coverts of the wings, and 
the fcapulars finely marked with numerous narrow 
tranfverfe bars of black and gre\: the greater 
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