68.
Var. A.
D escription.
MEXICAN P.
Description*
Place.
Cairo. Come into France the end of Oliober in fmall flocks
from twenty to forty. Not known for certain whether they
breed in England-, but one has been fhot in July in France.
Feeds on fmall jijb and fhells. Has a hilling voice. The flight
rapid and ftrong: the flocks form no particular fhape in flying, but
are indifcriminate. Found in Carolina in winter *.
Le Millouin noir, BriJ. Ora. vi. p. 389. A.
t jpH IS differs from the laft in a few particulars. The bill is
black, with a blue bafe : irides yellow : head and neck chefnut;
the lower part afh-coloured on the fides, and blackifh before: the
back, rump, and tail of this laft colour : breaft and belly brown,
mixed with dufky and afh-colour : wings mixed black and white:
legs olive: webs and claws black.
Le Millouin de Mexique, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 390. zo*
Quapachnauhtli, Rati Syn. p. 177*
r p H E bill in this is dufky alh-colour : eyes black: head,
neck, breaft, belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, fulvous:
back, fcapulars, wing coverts, and rump, tranfverfely barred fulvous
and brown : quills • not much unlike the laft: tail black
and white : legs as the b ill: claws black.
Inhabits Mexico;
Anas viduata, Lin. Syft. i. p. 205. 38.
Le Canard & face blanche, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 255.
—————— du Maragnon, Pi. Enl. 808.
Spanifh Duck, Gen. Birds» p. 65. pi. 13.
g I Z E a trifle lefs than the red-billed whijiling Buck. Bill and
eyes black: forehead, cheeks, chin, and back part of the
head, pure white: crown black : round the neck a black collar:
back and breaft bright ferruginous, crofted with narrow dufky
lines: wings pale brown, no fpeculum on them : belly whitifh
brown, fpotted with black : tail cuneiform, black: legs blueifh.
This is a beautiful fpecies; has a whittling note j and is called
by the Spaniards, Vindila. Found in Spain and Barbary * -, and
is faid to frequent the lakes of Carthagena "f.
Le Canard Dominiquain du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Son* Voy. Ind. ii. p. 22.
g I Z E of the Wild Buck. Bill black: the face and throat are
white: through the eye, from the bill, is a ftreak of black,
ending in an angle behind: hind part of the head, neck, and
breaft, black : back, and letter wing coverts, deep cinereous grey,
crofted with two bands of very pale grey : belly and vent pale
grey : legs black.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope.
* Gen. of Birds.
f Linnaus.—Whether of Old or New Spain he does not fay *, though it Ihouldr
feem the latter, from his ufing the authority of Jacqin for his defcription*
69.
SPANISH D.
D escription.
Place.
70.
DOMINICAN D.
D escription*
Placbv
Anas