British zoology . Class II. VELVET DUCK. the crown of the head, the cheeks, the neck,back, fcapulars and coverts of the wings are white;the lower part of the bread, the belly, tail, andquil feathers are black; the legs are green. The female is of a reddifh brown, barred tranf-verfely with black; but the head and upper partof the neck are marked with dufky ftreaks point-ing downward; the primary feathers are black;the greater or laft row of coverts of the wings,and the lefler row of quil feathers tipt with white:the tail is dufky; the belly of a deep brown, mark-ed obfcurely with black. One I w

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British zoology . Class II. VELVET DUCK. the crown of the head, the cheeks, the neck,back, fcapulars and coverts of the wings are white;the lower part of the bread, the belly, tail, andquil feathers are black; the legs are green. The female is of a reddifh brown, barred tranf-verfely with black; but the head and upper partof the neck are marked with dufky ftreaks point-ing downward; the primary feathers are black;the greater or laft row of coverts of the wings,and the lefler row of quil feathers tipt with white:the tail is dufky; the belly of a deep brown, mark-ed obfcurely with black. One I weighed wasthree pounds and a half. 5$3 Female. Anas nigra, roftro nigro rubro Faun. Suec. /p. 109. etluteo. Aldr. av. III. 97. Gunner. Tab. black Duck. WH orn. a<v. hiji. Harwich, N. Com. Petr. IV. 420 272. Velvet, Incolis Chrijiianfoe Soe-Orre, Hav-Orre v. Sav-Orre, quibuf-dam Sorte. Brunnich, 48. Nordifche fchwartze , II. 165. SupL La grand

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