MARECA D.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Place*
IJlands, particularly that named Bathera j but is not numerous.
Is faid to perch and rood on trees 3 and does not migrate northward
to breed *.
Le Canard du Brefil, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 360* 13»
Le Mareca, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 256.
Mareca fecunda Marcgravii, Raii Syn. p. 149. 5.
The fecond Mareca of Mangrove, Will. Orn. p. 379. § 12.
T H E bill in this bird is black and fhining : the top of the
head, upper part of the neck, and back, are umber-colour r
on each fide of the head, between the bill and eye, is a round
yellowilh white fpot: the chin is white : fore part of the neck,
and under parts, dark grey, with a mixture of gold: the upper
wing coverts are of a bright brown, with a greenilh glofs ; the
greater ones brown, with the outer edges blue green, and tipped
with black, forming two bands of thole colours: the quills are
brown, tipped with white: tail black, and cuneiform: legs
red.
Inhabits Brafil, and feems to be a fpecies not far differing
from the former, both of them being called by the name of
Mareca by the Brajilians.
* Arft. Zool.
Arm
Anas cïypeata, Lin. Syjl.i. p. 200. 19.— Faun» Suee. N° 119,— Scoft. Ann,
i, N° 70.— Pra». N° 77, 78.—Muller, N° 117 Kram* El. p. 342. 15.
— Fri/cb. pl. 161. 163.— Georgi Reife, p. 166.
Le Souchet, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 329. 6. pl. 32. fig. i.— Buf, Oif. 9. 191.—
Pl. Enl. 971, Male ; 972, Female.
Shoveler, Raii Syn. p. 143. A. 9. Male ; 144. 13. Female.—Will. Orn. p.
370. 15. Male3 p. 371. 16,17, Female.— Albin,i. pl. 97, 98.— Catejb.
Car, i. pl. 96. Fem.— Br. Zool. N® 280.— Arft. Zool. N° 485.
Br, Muf. Lev. Muf,
T E N G T H twenty-one inches: weight twenty-two ounces.
The bill is near three inches in length, and remarkably
broad at the end; the edges much peftinated; the colour black:
irides of a fine deep yellow : the head and neck are gloffy green,
changing to violet * : the lower part of the neck and breaft
white, with a few fpots in the fhape of crefcents: the fcapulars
white: back brown: belly chefnut: vent black: the firft and
fecond wing coverts pale blue; the greater brown, tipped with
white, forming a band on the wing : the quills are brown; fome
of the middle ones edged with green, and forming a fpot of
that colour : the tail brown, more or lefs edged with white j
the outer feather wholly white ; fhape cuneiform : legs orange :
claws grey.
The female is a trifle imaller. The plumage differs greatly:
the wing is marked much the fame, but lefs bright: the reft of
the plumage greatly approaching to that of the Wild Duck; but
for the firft year the wing is like the reft of the body. Both
fexes are apt to vary much in colour: the male likewife differs
from the female inwardly, having, juft above the divarication of
+• SHOVELER.
Descriptions
Female,