PlfACE AND
M anners*
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4* SCAUP D.
D escrip tion.
Inhabits Jamaica, where it is remarked for its making 3;
whijlling kind of noife; and is faid to build in trees. In fome
feafons migrates into Guiana. Is thought to be very good food»
I received- one of thefe from the firft-named place*and kept it for
fome time in my garden; but it was wild in the higheft degree,,
and would by no means become familiar. Is fuppofed to frequent
Carolina in winter, at leaft one, like it in name, is faid to-
be found on thofe coafts by Law/on * and Catejby j\ It is certainly
not the other fex of the laft ipecies. One of thefe, in the
Britijh Mujeum, had the title of Gpano Duck -, which name,, we are
informed, it bears at Guiana.
Anas mania, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 196. 8.— Faun. Suec. N“ i n .— Phil. Tran/.
lxii. p. 413.— Bran. N° 50, 51.— Muller, N? i n .—Frijih. t. 193.—
Georgt R'et/e, p. 166.
Anas fubterranea, Scop. Ann• i. N° 83 £
Le petit Morillon raye, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 416. 26. A*
Scaup Duck, Rail Syn. p. 142. A., 6,— Will. Orn. p. 365.-2?/% Zool.ih.
N° 275. pi. 100.— Arbi. Zool. N° 498.,
Lev. Muf~
’T H E length of this fpecies is eighteen- inches-: breadth;
twenty-nine : weight one pound feven ounces. The bill is-
two inches long, and-broadeft at the end; of a lead-colour, paleft
at the bafe ; nail black : irides of a fine gold-colour : the head
full of feathers; that and the neck black, gloffed with green
the lower part of the latter, and breaft,. black: the back, and fcapu-
lars are pale grey, finely undulated with numerous tranfverfe lines,
ofblack: lower part of the back, rump,.and vent, black : the wing:
• Hifl. Carol. 149, 4 Catejb. Car. App. yy— -Arcl. Zool.
3 coverts
coverts are finely undulated with alternate lines of dufky and white,
fo minute as to appear at a diftance as powdered with thefe two
colours: the ten prime quills greyifh afh-colour f the four outer
ones are dulky black on the outer webs ; the other fix greyifh
white, but the ends of all are black: from the eleventh to the
twentieth, white, with dufky ends, forming a broad bar of white
on the wing ; the five next the body dufky, which is likewife the ■
colour of the ta il: the under parts of the body, from the breaft,
are white,, powdered with dufky between the legs and fides over
the thighs: the legs are pale lead-colour: webs and claws black.
Thefe birds are faid to vary in colour,, efpecially about the head
and neck *.
The female weighs more by two ounces than the male f , and F emale.
has the irides of a dirty yellow..
This inhabits Iceland, as it does the more northern parts of ^;ACE AND Manners*
the continent o(.Europe, Lapland, Sweden, Norway, and RuJJia.
Common on the northern fhores of Sibiria. Very frequent on the
river Ob. Breeds in the north, and migrates fouthward in winter.
Inhabits America, as high as Hudfon’s Bay comes there in
May, and retires in OSlober. Found in England, in the winter feafon,
in fmall flocks. We have received it from the coaft of Suffolk. Is
faid to feed on broken fhell-fijh, called Scaup, whence the name J.
I f the fame as Scopoli’s || bird, above quoted, is very common
» “ Efpecially in the beadand neck, to that among a pack offorty or fifty.
you fhall not find two exactly alike.”— Willughhy.
4 Arbi. Zool. t WUlughby.
\[ His bird is lefs than the Mallard. Bill brow»: plumage above, brown;,
beneath white : tail white, tipped with brown: quills white on the inlide : legs
brown. He compares it to the Scaup Buck, yet fays it is not abfoluuly the fame
bird*
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