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The mid Mallard. Boíchas major.
Numb. C.
Ì T S Weight was two Pound four Ounces; Length, from the Tip of the Bill to the
End of the Tail, twenty five Inches and a half; Breadth, when the Wings wete
extended, was thirty four Inches ; the Bill is of a greenilh yello w, from the Tip to
the Angles of the Mouth, two Inches and a half; Breadth one Inch, not very flat;
the upper Mandible hath at the End a round Tip or Nail; the lower Eye-lids are
white: the Head and upper part of the Neck are of a delicate ihining green, then
follows a Ring, of white, which yet fails of being an intire Circle not coming round
behind ; from the' white Ring, the Throat is of a chefnut Colour down to the Breaft ;
the Breaft it felf and Belly are of a white Aih-colour, fprinkled with innumerable dark
Specks as it were all : Drops; under the Tail the Feathers are black; the upper fide of
the Necfe from cinereous is red, fprinkled in like manner with Spots; the middle of
the back between the Wings is red, the lower part black, and ftill deeper on the
Rump with a Glois of purple , riip Sì/tea nn.-ipr- rlv' Wmgi,, ind the longer^Feathers on
the Thighs aré "adorned with tranfverfe brown Lines, making a very fair Shew ; in
them the white Colour feems to have a Mixture of blue.
The leifer Rows of Wing-Feathers are red; the long fcapular Feathers are filver coloured,
elegantly variegated with tranfverfe brown Lines ; in each Wing are twenty four Quills,
the outmoft ten of a dusky brown; the fécond Decad have white Tips, their outer
Webs are of a ihining purplilh blue Colour, but between the white and blue intercedes a
Border of black ; the Tip of the twenty firft is white, the exteriour Web of a dark purple ;
the middle part o f the twenty fécond is a little filver coloured ; the twenty third is wholly
of a filver Colour, yet the Edges on each fide are black; the twenty fourth is likewise
of a filver Colour, only -the exteriour Border black, the outmoft covert Feathers
are of the fame Colour with the Quills, but thofe immediately incumbent on the
purple blue Quills have black Tips, and- next the Tips a broad Line or crofs Bar of
white, fo that the blue Spot is terminated with a double Line, firft black, and above that
white: the. Tail hath twenty Feathers .ending-in lharp Points, the four middle ones
of thefe are reflefted circularly towards the Head, being black with a Glofs of purple;
thç eight next to thefe on each Tide'; are white, efpeciàlly the outer ones and on their ex-
terioyr Webs, the nearer to the reflected ones the greater Mixture, of brown they
have; the covert Feathers of the. infide of the Wing, and the interiour. baftard Wing
are white; the Legs and Feet of a faffron Colour ; the Claws brown, but that of the
back Toe alrnoft white; the inmoft fore Toe is the-leaft, the Membranes conneâing
the Toes are of a more fordid Colour than the Toes; the Wind-pipe at its Divà’rication
hath a Veffel called a Labyrinth-, the Legs are feathered down to the Knees. See the
Wild-Puck, Vol. I. Plate 99,