black, edged with white: tail coverts deep changeable green:
twelve feathers in the tail; the two middlemoft black, the others
brown, edged with white: belly dulky, finely granulated : legs
fmall, yellow : webs dulky.
Piics. Taken in a decoy in England. Has been alfo met with along
the Lena, and about the lake Baikal. Has a finrgular note, fome-
what like clucking *.
67.
SOFT-BILLED D.
D escription.
Place and
Manners.
Blue Grey Duck, with a foft bill, Cook’s Fey. i. p. 72. 97.— Forft. Foy i.
p. 157.
Q I Z E of a Wigeon: length eighteen inches,. Bill an inch and
a quarter long, of a pale alh-colour ; the end of it foft, membranaceous,
and black : the top of the head greenilh alh-colour:
body in general pale blueilh lead-colour : acrofs the wing a fpot
of white : on the breaft a mixture of ferruginous : legs dulky
lead-colour.
This inhabits’ New Zealand; was’ met with in Dufky Bay, in
April. It is lingular on account of the end of the bill being fo
flexible and foft. It may be fuppofed to live by fuftion, fearch-
ing out the worms, &c. in the mud, when the tide retires from
the beaches. Is faid to wbifile like the Whiflling 'Duck. Is called
in New Zealand, He-weego.
• Ar3 . Zool. p. 575-
Anas