P lace and
M anners.
the windpipe, where it paffes into the lungs, an enlargement,
or, as it is called by fome, a labyrinth.
This bird is now and then met with in England, though not
in great numbers. TVillughby mentions one found at .rowland,
in Lincolnfttire; and we have had the male fent out of the London
markets. I cannot learn that it breeds in England, but it is faid
to come into France * in February, and fome of them to ftay
during the fummer f . It lays ten or twelve rufous coloured
eggs, placed on a bed of rujhes, in the fame places as the
Summer Teal; and departs in September, at leaft the major
part -of them, for it is rare that one is feen in the winter.
The chief food is injects, for which it is continually muddling
in the water with its bill. It alfo is faid dexteroufly
to catch flies, which pafs in its way over the water. Shrimps,
among other things, have been found in its ftomach on dif-
feftion.
This fpecies is alio found in moft parts of Germany 5 throughout
the Ruffian dominions, as far as Kamtflchatka-, and in North
America, in New York and Carolina, during the winter feafon;
With us it is accounted pretty good food. A bird fimilar to
this, if not the fame, is obferved to come to Hudfon’s Bay in
the fpring; and makes a whiffling noife. It is there known by
the name of Mimenewick.
* H iß ties O if. t Salerts. Orn. p. 421.
Anas
Anas mufcaria, L in .S y fl. i- I 200. 19. 0.— Rais Syn. p. 14(s.— W ill. O n .
p. 3 Frifeb. t. 162.
Le Souchet à ventre Blanc, Brif. O n . vi. p. 337. A.
P-pHIS differs from the former merely in having the belly
Le Canard fauvage da Mexique, Brif. On. vi. p. 327. 5-
Tempatlahoac, Rais Syn. p. 176.
Broad-billed Bird, or Tempatlahoac, m il. On. p. 3-87.
C l Z E of a Yame Duck. Bill broad, long, black: tongue
^ white: head and neck green, gloffed with purple and black:
icides pale : bread white : the reft of the body beneath fulvous,
with two white fpots on both Tides near the tail: above beautified
with certain femicircles, the circumference of which from white
incline to brown j the middle or inner part from black to a lhining
green : the wings, at the beginning blue, next white, and then
lhining green; yet their extremes are on one fide fulvous, on
the other ftiining green: the circumference of the tail above
and beneath white j elfe it is black underneath, and of a Peacock
colour above.
Inhabits Mexico, to which it comes from other countries. Its
flelh fuch as that of other marjh birds.
Le Souchet du Mexique, Brif. Orn. vi. p> 337. 7*
Yacapatlahoac, Raii Syn. p. 176.
C M A L L E R than the Common Duck. Bill very broad, and
5 0f a brownilh red : head, neck, and upper parts, barred with
„ fulvous,
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MEXICAN SH.
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