F emale.
P lace and
Manners.
The female weighs one pound, or more : has the head of a
deep reddifh brown : neck grey: breaft and belly white: wing
coverts and fcapulars dufky and afh-colour: middle quill feathers
white; the reft, and tail, black : legs dufky.;
This fpecies is not unfrequent on our fea-coafts in winter, and
appears in fmall flocks; but jpaffes to the north in fpring in order
to breed. It inhabits Sweden and Norway during the fummer.
Is an excellent diver, and feeds on fmall Jhells■ Moftly feen in the
water, as it is very aukward in walking. Has been attempted to
be domefticated; but feems out of its element on land: with
difficulty can be brought to eat any thing but bread ; and the
feet fpon grow injured, infomuch as at laft to hinder it walking
at any rate. The flefh is much efteemed, and the birds are often
feen in the markets at the proper feafon. Found in America, in
winter, as low as New Tork; in fummer at Hudfon's Bay, where it
frequents the frefh-water lakes, and makes a round neft of graft *,
lined with feathers from its breaft; lays from feven to ten white
eggs. Is called there Mijlejpe fqua pe wew f- Is alfo an inhabitant
of Greenland; but is not there a common bird.
* In hollow trees.—Faun. Sutc.
f Mr. Hutchins%
Anas
Anas Gkucion, tin. Syfi. i. p. 201.26»—Faun. Sutc. N° 12$.— Scop. Ann. x.
N° 7 2.— Muller, N° 120.
Le Morillon, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 406. 25. pi. 26. 1. 2.
Grey-headed Duck, Br. Zoo/, ed. 2. vol. ii. p. 470.
Glaucium, or Morillon of Belon, Raii Syn. p. 144.—Will. Orn. p. 368.—
Br. Zool. ii. N° 277.— Ar£l. Zool. p. 573. F.
Lev. Muf.
Z JR IS SON defcribes this as being rather lefs than the Golden-
eye: length near fifteen inches. Bill lead-colour: irides of
a golden yellow: the.head is fomewhat crefted : that, and moft
part of the neck, black, gloffed with violet; the lower part of the
neck, rufous brown: the back, fcapulars, and rump, glofiy black-
ifh brown, with a flight tinge of violet: breaft feathers brown,
deeply edged with white : belly white; near the vent mixed with
brown : wing coverts blackifh brown; moft of the inner ones
have a caft of green : the ten firft quills are blackifh brown 5
of thefe from the fourth to the tenth are marked with grey, more
or lefs, in the middle, on the outer web, near the lhaft 5 the
eleventh and twelfth pale grey, with brown tips; the eight following
white, tinged as the laft; the inner of thefe brown on
the inner web; the fix next the body dark brown, and the
outer one of thefe has a white fpot on the outer web: tail violet
brown : legs lead-colour : claws black.
The female has the head and neck brown, mixed before with
dufky: back and fcapulars bright brown, dotted with minute
grey points : lower part of the back and rump dark greeniffi
brown : fides grey brown: under tail coverts white, with black
bands: in other things like the male, except that the laft has a
V ol. III. 3 Z labyrinth
MORILLON D,
Description.
Female.