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Anas feucocephala, Scop. Ann. i. N° 79.
White-headed Duck, Shavfs Trav. p. 254. ?
g I Z E of the Mallard. Bill broad, furrowed at the bafe, and
of a pale blue : head white ; crown black: collar the fame * :
bread: chefnut brown, variegated at the lower part with tranfverfe
black lines : belly grey, marked with fmall black fpots back
rufous: wings the fame, but paler, marked with lines and dots of
brown : quills and tail brown.
In the Mufeum of Count Tefftn. From whence unknown. If
the bird quoted above, of Shaw, is found in Barbary.
L E N G T H twenty inches. Bill two inches, turning up a
little at the end ; colour yellow; edges and tip dufky black:
irides reddilh brown : the head and neck pale reddifh afh-colour,
lighted: on the fore part, and minutely dalhed with dufky ftreaks :
the upper parts of the body pale reddifh afh-colour, marked with
dufky fpots : fcapulars the fame, but deeper in colour: wino- coverts
pale afh-colour: fpeculum of the wings pale verdioris
green, edged with dufky, bounded above and beneath with a
bar of white : Tides pale cinereous, marked with fpots of a deeper
colour: quills and tail dufky: legs greenifh afh-colour.
This was found in South Georgia, the middle of "January, and
was a male bird; the flefh was thought good eatino-.
From the drawings of Sir JoJeph Banks.
Another, fomething fimilar to this, was met with at the Cape
of Good Hope. The general colour dufky afh, mottled on the
breaft with white.
* We may fuppofe round the neck, but it is not laid fo.
Anas
Anas perfpicillata, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 201. 25.— Phil. Tran/. Jxii. p. 417.
La grande Macreufe de la Baye de Hudfon, Sri/. Orn. vi. p. 425. 30.,
La Macreufe a large bee,- Bu/. Oi/. ix. p. 244.
Canard du Nord, appelle le Marchand, Pi. Enl. 995.
Great Black Duck from Hudfon’s Bay, Ed-w. pi. 155..
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
g I Z E of the Velvet Duck: length twenty-one inches : weight
two pounds two ounces. The bill is compreffed on the fides;
the bafe of the upper mandible rifes into a knob of a yellowifh
colour, with a black fpot on each fide of i t ; the reft of the bill
orange : the nail red ; the fides of it, all round, black: the
plumage is of a dull black, except a large patch of white on the
forehead, and another of the fame at the back part of the neck :■
the legs are red : webs dufky.
The female is fmaller: o f a footy-colour : and has no white
fpot at the hind part of the head : but the cheeks are marked,
with two dull white fpots *.
This is wholly an American fpecies. Breeds along the fhores at
Hudfon’s Bay, and feeds on grafs: it alfo makes the neft with the
fame, lined with feathers; and lays from four to fix white eggs :
hatches the end of July. Is called by the natives Mijfe qua gu ta:
wow. In winter met with as far fouth as South Carolina, and infrequently
feen at New Tork, where it is by fome called the Coot.
Our laft navigators met with this in FrinceWilliands Soundf.
* Arft. Zool. iGooJds laft Voy. ii. p. 37$v
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