. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. the L I T t L E t H I C KL- HEADED DUCK; uiaas Buctphala. JLlnn, and Cmel; j4nas Hjbcrna. BrilT. ,.â¢â .â¢-. The BiiJ'd-heaiisdDttck, Catelby, Penn. and Lath. ^~T^ H I s little D" ' is of a middle fizft be- tween the cjmh i duck and the j^argahcy* All its head is clothed with a tuft of unwebbed feathers, agreeably tinged with purple, and heigh ⢠ened by reflections of green and blue. This thick tuft increafes confiderably the bulk of its head; and hence Catefby
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. the L I T t L E t H I C KL- HEADED DUCK; uiaas Buctphala. JLlnn, and Cmel; j4nas Hjbcrna. BrilT. ,.â¢â .â¢-. The BiiJ'd-heaiisdDttck, Catelby, Penn. and Lath. ^~T^ H I s little D" ' is of a middle fizft be- tween the cjmh i duck and the j^argahcy* All its head is clothed with a tuft of unwebbed feathers, agreeably tinged with purple, and heigh ⢠ened by reflections of green and blue. This thick tuft increafes confiderably the bulk of its head; and hence Catefby ftiles it i\\QBufel-headed Duck. It frequents the freili waters in Carolina* Behind the eye is a broad white fpot; the wings and the back are marked with longitudinal fpots^ black and white alternatelyj the tail is gray; the bill is lead-colourj and the legs are red. The female is entirely brown; its head uniform^ and without a tuft. : ; ' > * ; This Duck appears in Carolina only in but that is no reafon why Briifon fhould give it the appellation of winter Duck ; for it muft live elfewhere in the fummer, and in fuch countries it might with equal propriety be named ih^/wn-^ ?ner Ditckk - . > .. ^ . [A] Specific charaftcr of the Anas Buccphala: " It is whitiili j « its back and wing-qnills black j above and below its head there " is a fwelling of a filky glofs,'* VOL. IX. 1». i Pv4. * !' V! ^â l ;tfi li w- â 'U-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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