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79* 4- TUFTED D.
D escription.
F emale.
Place.
fore part of the neck, bread, and under parts, blaek and white
mixed : prime quills black, edged outwardly with white; the
next green on the outer webs, and black within; and thofe neared
the body black, outwardly banded with white: tail like that of
the male : legs alh-colour.
This inhabits the lakes of Mexico, where it is faid to be a very
foul feeder, continually dabbling in the mud with its bill for
worms, dead fijh, See.; alfo fond of frogs, and in lhort all manner
offilth-, notwithdanding which, the flefh is accounted excellent.
Found alfo at Surinam, Said to lay three large eggs.
Anas fuligula, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 207. 45.— Fata1. Sum. N* 132.— Scop. Ann. 1.
78.— Brun. N° go.—Muller, N° 129.— Kram. El. p. 341. 12.—
Frifih. pi. 171.— Georgi Reife, 167.
Le petit Morillon, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 411. 26. pi. 37. :.
Le Morillon, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 227. 231. pi. 15.— PI. Enl. jooi.
Tufted Duck, Raii Syn. p. 14z. A. 7.—Will. Orn. p. 365. pi. 73.— Allin, i.
pi. 95.— Br. Zool. ii. N° 274.— Aril. Zool. p. 573. G.
Br. Muf, Lev. Muf.
J ^ E N G TH fixteen inches: weight two pounds. Bill broad,.
of a blue grey -, tip black: irides golden: head_ feathers
long, forming a pendent cred : head, neck, and bread, black;
the firft gloffed with green: fcapulars deep blackilh brown,
fprinkled with minute dots of a cream-colour, but not vidble at
a didance: wings dufky brown; aerofs them z narrow bar of
white: the belly and vent white; the lad mixed with dufky:
legs dufky blue : webs black.
The female is like the male-, but the creft is wanting, and the
black colour verges to brown.
This fpecies is found in Europe as far as Norway. In the winter
months is not unfrequent in England; being met with in the
markets
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markets in that feafon, and is much edeemed *. It is common
alfo throughout the Ruffian empire, going northward to breed.
Is frequent in Kamtfchatka .
Anas nyroca, N. C. Petr• xiv. p. 403. (Gueldenßaedu)
J ^ E N G T H fixteen inches and eight lines. Bill two inches,
prefied on the fides, and of a deep gloffy chefnut: neck, bread,
and fides, the fame: lower part of the neck behind, back, and
rump, olive black : belly and vent white; fides of the lad brown:
wings fhorter than the tail; fome of the quills edged, and others
tipped with olive black ; from the feventh to the twentieth
white, except at the ends, which are black, forming, when clofed,
a large patch or fpeculum : tail pointed, of a black brown : legs
deep lead-colour : claws black.
The female is fmaller; of a dirty ruff-colour where the male is-
chefnut : belly whitifii, clouded : region of the vent paler
brown j and the back inclined to rufous: the red as in the male.
This inhabits Ruffia; and is frequent about the river Don:
Thtmal'e and female always found together. Lays from fix to
eight whitifh eggs, in feme hollow on a rifing ground, in the
month of May. The female-, while fitting, drives off the male,
led he fhould break the eggs, as he is known to do. This fpecies
lives chiefly on vegetables and feeds, rarely on fijh. The flefh
is well-taffed, and tender.
« The French allow this to be eaten on Maigre Bays, and in Lent; as they
alfo do the Scoter: but though the flefh of this laft is now and then tolerable, that
of the tufted Duck is feldora otherwife than excellent.
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Description.
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