. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . olour ; the twenty firft and twenty fecond are white aboutthe Edges, black in the middle along the Shaft; the fmall covert Feathers of the Wingsare of a light brawn, or dark Afli-colour, but thofe tliat cover the Quills from thetenth to the twentieth are parti-coloured of brown, white, and cinereous. In the Structure of the Mouthy Tongue, and Head, it difiers little from the com-mon TFild-Duck, unlefs perchance the Head be lefs in Proportion to the Body; thetipper Mandible of the

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. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . olour ; the twenty firft and twenty fecond are white aboutthe Edges, black in the middle along the Shaft; the fmall covert Feathers of the Wingsare of a light brawn, or dark Afli-colour, but thofe tliat cover the Quills from thetenth to the twentieth are parti-coloured of brown, white, and cinereous. In the Structure of the Mouthy Tongue, and Head, it difiers little from the com-mon TFild-Duck, unlefs perchance the Head be lefs in Proportion to the Body; thetipper Mandible of the Bill is of a lead Colour, with a round black Nail at the End;the Feet from a duiky incline to a Lead Colour; the Claws are black; the outmoftToe longer than the inmoil; the back Toe the fhorteft. It feeds upon Grafs and Weeds growing in the Bottoms of Rivers, and Lakes, andChannels of Water, alfo upon Wilks, Periwinkles, &c. that it finds there. The Malesof this Kind at Cambridge are called Wigeons, the Females IVheivers. The Flefh of icfor Delicacy is much inferiour to Teal, or indeed Wild-Ducks. n oe yy. ^-^/laj jfij^/r//a/^i/. ?y?e 7/^//^^,^{77z ^77 ///ie/i>-er /bO

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