THE 
W E S T E R N DUCK. 
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Generic Character. 
Bill broad and flattened ; the edges marked with 
fharp lamellae. 
Tongue broad and ciliated at the edges. 
Specific Character, &r. 
VARIEGATED DUCK, with a frontal and oc¬ 
cipital band of green ; the fcapular feathers 
falcated downwards ; the bill and legs black. 
WESTERN DUCK. 
Lath. Synopf. 3. p. 532. 
Tennant. Arhl. Zool. p. 564. 
The beautiful fpecies of Duck here reprefented, is na¬ 
med the Webern Duck from its having been princi¬ 
pally found on the weftern coafts of America; but it is 
likewifean inhabitant of Kamtfchatka, where it breeds 
amongft inacceffible rocks. It is laid to fly in flocks, 
and never to enter the mouths of rivers, but to confine 
itlelf to the fea-coafts. The elegant lpecimen in the 
Levcrian Muleum was the individual from which this 
figure was taken: Mr. Pennant’s figure of this bird 
in the Arctic Zoology was alfo drawn from the fame 
lpecimen. The fizc of this fpecies is nearly that of a 
Wigeon. 
