U K.
74-
WESTERN D.
Description.
Anas Stelleri, Pallas Spic. vi. p. 35* t. 3.
Weftern Duck, Aril* Zool. N° 497. pi. 23.
Lev* Mu/.
C I Z E of the Wigeon : length fevehteen inches. Bill made not
unlike that of the Wigeon-, colour black: irides hoary brown :
the top and fides of the head and neck, and hind part of the laft
for halfway, white : acrofs the forehead from eye to eye a pea-
green band \ at the nape of the neck a tranfverfe one of the fame
colour, but much deeper, at the lower corner of which, on each
fide, is a round black fpot the fize of a pea » at the lower angle
of the eye behind, another of the fame colour, but irregular in
fhape: the chin, throat, and fore part of the neck, black, communicating
with a collar of the fame which furrounds the neck
about the middle; from the hinder part of this the black pafifes
down over the back, quite to the ta il: the breaft and fides are
pale ferruginous, deepening into chefnut at the middle, growing
Hill deeper as it pafles on towards the vent, where the colour is
black: the wing coverts are white; the prime quills dulky
black j the fecondaries are fix inches long, and curve downwards,
partly white, partly black, the colours divided obliquely on each
feather : the fcapulars are alfo long, and curve elegantly downwards
over the greater coverts, as in the Garganey ; each of thefe
has the web next the body fcarcely broader than the lhaft itfelf,
and both of them white j the other web very broad, and black :■
tail pointed, brown: legs black.
The above is delcribed from the fpecimen in the Peverian Mu-
feum. In that mentioned by Pallas, the head is faid to be fomewhat
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what crefted: the green fpot before the eye does not unite acrofs
the head, and is broader than in the above bird : the black fpot
at the angles of the green band of the nape not mentioned : in
other refpedts one defcription may fuffice.
This is a rare and molt elegant fpecies. Found about the fea-
coafts of Kamtjchatka, and breeds among the inacceffible rocks
there. Flies in flocks. Frequents alfo the weftern fide of
America.
Anas albeola, Lin. Syft. 199, I3.— PJyil. Iran/. Ixii. p. 416.
....— bucephala, Id. 200. 21.
La Sarcelle de la Louifiane, Brif. Ont* vi. p. 461. pi. 41. fig. 1.
1 blanche & noir, ou la Religieufe, Bu/* Qif. ix. p. 284*—PI*
Enl. 948.
Le Canard d’Hyver, Brif. Qrn. vi. p. 349. 10.
Le petit Canard àgroffe tête, Buf. Oif* ix. p. 249.
Little black and white Duck, Edw. pi. 100.
Spirit Duck, Aril* Zool N° 487»
BufFel-headed Duck, Aril* Zool. N° 489.— Cate/b* Car• i. pi. 93»
Br. Mu/ Lev* Mu/.
an inch and a half long, and black : the head and neck green
gold, with a glofs of violet in fome lights: from behind each
eye the feathers are white, palling in a broad patch to the back
of the head: the lower part of the neck all round, the breaft, and
under parts, are white : the outer fcapulars are white, forming a
longitudinal band on each fide of the back, which, with the reft
of the fcapulars, is black : the lefler wing coverts are dulky, edged
with white 5 the middle ones white the greater, down the middle
of the wing, white j but thofe on each fide black : quills dulky
4 black,
Place*
+- BUFPEL-i
HEADED D.
Male.
Description,