42. Anas Nilotica, Hajfelq. Voy. p. 365. N° 36.
NILOTIC D.
D escrip tion-. ®Q I Z E between the Pintail Duck and the common Gooje, but
ftands higher on its legs. Nail of the bill hoary; 'the margin
of it is bounded by a callus, which is a little elevated, equal,
and of a purplifh blood-colour; a fecond encompafles the bafe,
3. little elevated, of a dull purple, and has four warts, two on
each fide: irides yellow : throat, fides of the neck, crown, and a
Jane behind the eyes, whitilh, fpotted with hoary or cinereous:
breaft, belly, and thighs, whitilh brown, crofted with dulky tranfverfe
lines: fides of breaft and belly marked with oblong and
hoary lines: tail longilh, rounded in lhape: legs red: claws
black.
P lace. inhabits the Nile, in Upper Egypt, but no where elfe, except
perhaps on the bays of the Red Sea. The Arabians call it Bah*.
•Is eafily tamed, and lives among other domeftic poultry in
Egypt. The above feems allied to the Mujcovy Goofe.
* No doubt this is the fort called by Pococke, Bauk; which he fays, when
fent into England, are known by the name of Haw Geefe.— See Pacock* Tran/* i.
j>. 210.
Anas
Anas bofchas, Lin. Syjl* i. p. 205. 40.—Faun. Suec. N° 131 *m~rPbil. Tranf.
Ixii. p. 419.—*Stop. Ann. i. N° 77.—Brun. N° 87.—Muller, N° 128.—
Kram. El* p. 341. n .— Frifcb. pi. 158. i$g.— Georgi Rei/e, p. 166.—
Faun. Groenl. N'J 47.— Faun. Arab. p. 3. N° 9.
be Canard fauvage, Brif. Om. vi. p. 318. 4.— Buf. Oif. ix. p. 115. pi. 7, 8.
—PI. Enl. 776. 777.— Farm. Sarin. ii. p. 156.
Wild Duck, Raii Sjn. p. 145. A. 1. 150. 1 .—Will. Orn. p. 308. pi. 72.75.
—Albin, ii.pl. 10. (male) 1. pi. 99, (female).— Br. Zool. ii. p. 279.
pi. 97.— Ar£l. Zool. N° 494*
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf,
f p H I S fpecies is well known, both in its wild and domefticated
ftates : fuffice it to fay, that the former is near two feet in
length: the weight two pounds and a half*. The bill of a
gree’nilb yellow : head and neck gloffy changeable green : at the
lower part of the neck a collar of white, palling almoft round the
neck: the fcapulars white, barred or rather undulated with
minute lines of brown: the back is brown : and the rump black,
glofied with green: on the wing coverts is a tranfverfe white
ftreak, edged with a fecond of black ; and below this the fpecu-
lum, or large violet-green lucid fpot: the lower part of the neck
and breaft are chefnut: the belly pale grey, crofied with numerous
tranfverfe dulky lines : the tail confifts of twenty feathers,
and is pointed in lhape; the two middle ones are of a
»reenilh black, and curve upwards in a remarkable manner; the
others as ufual, and of a grey brown, margined with white : legs
orange.
• This is the ufual weight; but feveral Mallarets were taken in Chilltsfori
decoy, in Suffolk, in the year 1781, whofe weight was three pounds and a half.
V o l . III. 3 R The
43-
+■ MALLARD.
Description.