white lines on the sides of the neck; under surface of the
body nearly uniform pale, brown.
The length of the windpipe in this species is about nine
inches and a half* the diameter of the tube slightly enlarged
about an inch above the bony labyrinth, the form of which is
figured below.
NATATORES. ANATIDÆ.
T H E BIMACÜLATED DUCK.
Anas gloeit ans, Bimaculated ~Duck, P enn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 272.
,, ,, i, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 378.
,, ,, ,, F ijem. Brit. An, pi 125.
Querqvledula ,, ,, Tedl, Se iby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 321.
Anas y y ,, Duek, J enyns, Brit. V e rt. p . 232.
,, y y ,, Teal, GogLD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii.
>> y y Canard glousseur, Temm. M an .d ’Ornith. p t iv. p.533.
T h e British historical notice of this prettily marked duck
was thus-given by Mr. Vigors, in November 1824.* “ The
male .of this species was first described by Pennant in his
British Zoology, under the-name of Bimaculated Duck, and
introduced as an inhabitant of the British Islands, in the
following w o r d s - ‘Taken in a decoy in 1771,. and communicated
to me by Edward Poore, Esq.1 The same bird
was afterwards described and figured by Dr. Pallas, in the
Acta Stoekholmiensia for 1779, as a native of Siberia, fre-
* Linnean Transactions, vol. xiv. p. 560.