. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. DUCK. «3i operates with the tame Duck, the tame Drake may operate with the wild Duck, fuppofing that fometimes flie yields to his felicitation: and hence might refult thofe differences in bulk* and in colours -f*, which has been noticed be- tween fome of the wild kind J. All of them, wild as well as tame, are ful jedt to an almoft fudden moulting, in w^ich their great feathers drop in a few day ^nu ^ten in a lingle night § : indeed all birds with flat bills and palmat
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. DUCK. «3i operates with the tame Duck, the tame Drake may operate with the wild Duck, fuppofing that fometimes flie yields to his felicitation: and hence might refult thofe differences in bulk* and in colours -f*, which has been noticed be- tween fome of the wild kind J. All of them, wild as well as tame, are ful jedt to an almoft fudden moulting, in w^ich their great feathers drop in a few day ^nu ^ten in a lingle night § : indeed all birds with flat bills and palmated feet feem fubjed to a quick {bed- ding of their plumage ||. This happens to the males • Salerne and Ray. f The ifjild black Duck In Frifch.*—We ourfelves faw, on the Jjool of Armainvilliers, of which all the Ducks have the livery of the wild ones, two varieties, the one called red^ whofe flanks are of a fine brown bay ; the other was a male, which had not the collar, but inftead of it all the lower part of the neck, and the crefcent on the breaft, of a fine gray. \ M. Salerne fpeaks of a wild Duck entirely white, killed in Sologne ; but the bulk which he attributes to it, makes it doubtful whether it really was a Duck. ** It was white," he fays, " and as " white as fnow, but what was moft itiiking, it was as large as a ** niiddlc-fiied ; § According to M. Baillon. II '* I have often obferved with aftoniflimcnt, Ihcldnikcs, brents, " and whiftlers, rid themfelves in two or three days, or e%'{:n in a « finglc night, of all the feathers of their wing^" Sequelcf the notes- communicated by M» Biiillon.'^ln tiic fummcr feafon, the Indian or Mufcovy Ducks lofe enurely all their feathers; tiiey are obliged to remain in the water and among the mangroves, where they run a rilk of being devoured by fcrpents, alligatois, quachis, and other ravenous animals. "I he In Jians ;;o to hunt them at this time in the places where they know that t
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