BROWN D.
■ Description.
ÎLACE.
makes the neft on the fliore among the fhrubs. Its food is fmall
Jhells, eggs of fijhes, and particularly the larva of Gnats. Seen
in the neighbouring feas in winter. Swims well, even in the
mod rapid ftreams j and dives to admiration * : likewife flies
fwift, and to a great height: from thefe circumftances is not
eafily taken. Our late navigators met with it at Aoortalajhka f .
Pretty frequent in the fmall rivulets of Hudfon’s Bay, about
ninety miles inland : feldom in large rivers. Has a whiffling
note. Lays ten or more white eggs, like thofe o f the Pigeon,
on the grajs. The young brood fpeckled irr a very pretty manner.
Migrates fouth in autumn. The name, in the Algonquin
language, is PowiJHc ou Jheef J.
Brown Duck» Ar£i. Zoo/. N° 499*
E N G T H fixteen inches. Bill large, thick at the bale;
colour blueifh, with the tip black; noftrils near the end:
head and neck of a very pale brown : lower part of the laft, and
breaft, the fame, edged with ruft-colour: wings cinereous grey;
fpeculum blue, tipped with white; tail and legs dulky.
Inhabits Newfoundland.
* The people of Kamtfcbatka take advantage of this - as they do not fly
off at the fight of mankind, they follow them clofely on the water ; and,
when tired, withont difficulty knock them on the head with dabs.—Ssft.
Kamifch.
f Ellis’s Narr. ii. p. 43.— Called there the Painted Duck.
X Mr. Hutchins,
Anas
Anas poecilorhyncha, Zook Ind. p. 23. t. 13.
Ç 1 Z E not mentioned. Bill long and black, marked on each
13 fide with a red fpot at the bafe ; the tip white : from the bill
through the eyes a black ftreak : cheeks, chin, and upper,part
of the neck adjoining, cinereous white : crown, nape, hind part
of the neck, back, wing coverts, greater quills, and tail, black,
edged with alb-colour : fécond quills white : fpeculum green,
the feathers margined with white : vent black : legs rufous
yellow..
Inhabits Ceylon, in the Eaft Indies, where it is very common.
Anas Damiatica grifea, roffro apice plano lato rotundo, HaJgelj. Voy. p. 264.
Black-headed Duck, Shaw’s Trav. p. 2J4. î
C I Z E a trifle bigger than the Mallard. The head, half the
neck,, the fhoulders, and tips of the tail, black : the reft of
the neck before, breaft, back, belly, fides, and tail, white: at the
lower part of the neck, next the back, a crefcent of ferruginous 5
and the end of the wing is of. the fame colour near the back;:
quills greenifh black: hind claw very obtufe.
Inhabits the fhores of Egypt; mod frequent on thofe near the
Mediterranean-, chiefly in the bay near Damietta, and between
Alexandria and Rofetta, where they are taken in nets. It moft
likely is alfo an inhabitant of Barbary, as it is not greatly unlike
the one defcribed by Shaw, if not the very fame bird.
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SPOTTED-BILLED
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D escription.-
Place.
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DAMIETTA D.
D escription,
Peace,,
Anas