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quil feathers are dufky : the lefler white, tipt with 
black : the belly is white : the tail and feathers, 
both above and below is black ; the thighs barred 
with dufky and white ftrokes : the legs dufky 
Mr. Willoughby acquaints us, that thefe birds 
take their name from feeding on fcaup , or broken 
{hell fifh : he obferves too, they differ infinitely 
in colors ; fo that in a flock of forty or fifty there 
are not two alike. 
SPECIES XI. The Golden Eye. 
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TVil. orn. 368. 
Rail fyn. av. 142. 
Brijfon av. VI. 416. Tab. 37. Fig. 2. 
VH I S fpecies weighs two pounds : the 
length is nineteen inches; the breadth 
thirty-one. The bill is black, ftiort, 
and broad at the bafe : the head is large, of a 
de.:p black glofled with green : at each corner of 
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the mouth is a large white fpot: the irides are of 
a bright yellow: the upper part of the neck is 
of the fame color with that of the head: the 
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breaft and whole under fide of the body are white; 
the fcapulars black and white : the back, tail, 
and the coverts on the ridge of the wing black : 
Anas clangula. Lin. Jyft. 125. 
Gefner av. 119. 
the fourteen firft quil feathers, and the four laft 
are black ; the feven middlemoft white, as are 
the coverts immediately above them : the legs of 
an orange color. The head of the female * * is of 
a deep brown, tinged with red : the neck grey ; 
breaft and belly white: coverts and fcapulars dufky 
and afh-colored : middle quil feathers white; the 
others together with the tail black ; the legs 
dufky. Thefe birds frequent frefh water, as well 
as the fea; being found on the Shropjhire meres 
during winter. 
* The fmaller red headed duck. Will orn. 369. Rati fyn. av. 143. 
SPECIES XII. The Shieldrake. Plate 
Shieldrake, or burrough duck. JVih 
orn. 363. 
Rail fyn. av. 140. 
Anas tadorna. Lin. Jyft. 122. 
^HE male of this elegant fpecies weighs 
two pounds ten ounces; the length is 
two feet; the breadth three and a half. 
The bill is of a bright red, and at the bafe fwells 
into a knob, which is moft confpicuous in the 
fpring ; the head and upper part of the neck is 
of a fine blackifh green; the lower part of the neck 
white ; the breaft, and upper part of the back is 
furrounded with a broad band of bright orange 
bay; the coverts of the wings, and the middle 
of the back are white; the fcapulars black; the 
Tadorna. Briffon av. VI. 344. Tab. 
33. Fig. 2. 
Anas maritima. Gefner av. 803, 804. 
greater quil feathers are black ; the exterior web s 
of the next are of a fine green, and thofe of the 
laft orange; the poverts of the tail are white ; 
the tail itfelf of the fame color, and except the 
two outmoft feathers tipt with black ; the belly 
white, divided lengthways by a black line; the 
legs of a pale flefh color. Thefe birds inhabite the 
fea coafts, and breed in rabbet holes. They lay 
fifteen or fixteen eggs, white, and of a roundifh 
fhape. In winter they collect in great flocks. 
Their flefh is very rank and bad, 
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