Species of duck, possibly the American black duck, Anas rubripes. Paralipomena quae continent avium aliquot, Indianischen Enten, Anas indica alia. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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