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The beak is rather blunt; €6vered with a membrane, or 
dking it is gibbous at the bafe, broad and nervous at the 
_ point, and the fides are denticitlated, (or uneven like a faw.) 
The tongtie is flefhy. 
_ The feet are webbed, for fwimming, 
Genus o7 ANAS, 
The bill is ftrong, brdad, flat (or depreffed), convex, 
and blunt, the edges of the mandibles are marked with 
harp lamelle, (or teeth,) and commonly furnifhed at the 
end with a nail. 
The tongue is fringed, and blunts 
The noftrils are {mall, and oval. 
The toes are four in number ; three ate placed before, 
one behind; and the middle toe is the longeft. 
MHERE are many fpecies of the Anas 
Genus ; viz. Swans; feveral kinds of 
: Geefe, and Ducks, 
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