Female.
D escription.
IPlACE AND
M anners.
'black, fome of the inner ones marked with white on the inner
webs: tail cinereous, the three outer feathers edged outwardly
with white, the lhape of it cuniform : legs orange i claws black.
A n a s r u f t i c a , Lin* Syji. i . p . 20 I-. 2 4 .
L a S a r c e l l e d e l a C a r o l i n e , Sri/. Orn. v i . p . 4 6 4 . 3 9 .—Buf. O x / i x . p . 2 8 6 .
L i t t l e b r o w n D u c k , Catejb* Car, i . p i . 9 8 .
C M A L L E R than the laft: length fourteen inches: weight
3 one pound. Bill black: irides hazel: the head and upper
parts deep brown : behind the eye an oval>hite fpot: throat and
under parts pale grey : greater quills deep brown j the lefler ones
the fame, but outwardly edged with white, forming a patch on
the wing : tail brown • legs black.
Thefe inhabit America, and are found at New York in the
winter, migrating alfo as far as Carolina; return Jouth in fummer
to breed. Come into Hudfon’s Bay, about Severn River, in
June, and make the neft in trees, in the woods, near ponds.
Dive often, and rife again at a great diftance; hence called
by fome the Spirit Duck *.
The Buffel-headed and Spirit Duck of authors can be no other
than one and the fame fpecies, as they differ only in the fulnefs of
plumage about the head j every other chara&er agrees minutely.
That of Catejby was drawn from nature, and is fuch as I have
feen various fpecimens of in cabinets, as well as in my own pof-
feffion, except that in the Britijh Mufeum, in which the head is
fmooth, and fimilar to that from which Edwards made his figure.
As thefe birds are not fcarce, I have compared them again and
* T h i s i s f a id o f th e male.— Edwards.
again, and cannot at prefent form any other conclufion. We fhall
however be happy to retraft this or any other fentiment taken
up againft the general opinion, whenever fufficient proofs fhall
be adduced to dear up the point.
A n a s c l a n g u l a , tin. Syft. i . p . 2 0 1 . xj.—Faun. Snee. N * 122.—Scop. Ann. 1.
N ° 7 i.—Srun. N ° 7 0 . 7 1 .— Mailer. N * 1 1 9 .— Kram. El. p . 341. 13.—
Fri/ch, p i . 183. 184-— GeorgiRei/e, p . 1 6 6 .— Faun. Groenl.N0 43.
L e G a r r o t , Brif. Orn. v i . p . ,4 1 6 . 2 7 . p i . 3 7 - fig - 2 .—Bn/. 0/ l x . p . 2 2 2 .
— PI. Enl. 8 0 2 .
S m a l l e r r e d d i lh - h e a d e d D u c k , mil. Orn. p . 3 6 9 .—RaiiSyn. p . ' 4 3 - * * }
( f e m a l e )
G o ld e n - e y e , Rail Syn. p . 1 4 2 . A . 8 .— Will. Orn- p . 3 6 8 . p i . r^.— Alhin.-i.
p i . g g ,— Br. Zool. i i . N " 2 7 6 .— ArS. Zool. N ° 4 8 6 . .
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/.
quarters. Bill not quite two inches long, and black : irides .
gold-colour: the head and half the neck, are black, with a glofs
of green and violet: at the angle of the mouth, between the bill
and eye, a large white fpot: the lower part of the neck, the
bread:, and under parts, are white ; fome of the feathers on the
fides tipped with black: the back, rump, and upper tail coverts,
black : fcapulars black and white :. the wing coverts are black,
marked with two patches of white, the firft on the lefler, the fe-
cond on the greater ones : the quills are black, except feven of
the middle ones, which are white : the legs orange. This bird;
is furnifhed with a labyrinth *.
* T h e wind-pips h a th a labyrinth a t th e d iv a r i c a t io n : a n d b e f id e s , a b o v e fw e l l s
o u t . in t o a b e l l y , o r p u f f - l i k e c a v i t y .-Wilhghby. S e e an . e n g r a v i n g o f t h e
wind-pipe in th e p l a t e . .
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