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(So ) ORD. IIL GEN. XI. DUCK. SPE. XIII. BROWN-HEADED DUCK. PI. 257. The male of this fpecies weighs twenty-four ounces. The bill is (hort; the upper mandible arched, and narrow j the bafe, black, below the noftrils orange coloured, nail black: eyes, rich yellow: the feathers of the head, red- di(h brown, and very bufhy, overhanging the neck, and appearing as if clipped round: part of the neck, white: breaft, brownifh grey: belly, white: vent, dull black: back, dark grey brown, the feathers on the upper part edged with pale grey: fhoulders of the wings, grey, edged with white : middle quill fea thers, white; the reft, black: tail of a dull black, rather long, and round: legs, orange j webs, black. The female is fmaller, weighing little more than eighteen ounces; but in the colour and feathering of the head, and the reft of the plumage, it perfectly agrees with the male. This fpecies is very common on our feacoafts, and fometimes frequents the frefh waters in hard winters. It has been fuppofed, to be the female of the preceding, but I cannot fee for what reafon. I have ftiot many of the fpecies, and always found males and females of them. The bill, which is the moft diftin- guilhing charaderiftic in all birds, is totally different from that of the golden eyed duck, which is flat and broad j for that of the red-headed duck is much fhorter, and the upper mandible is arched and narrow, as in the widgeon. In fad, they agree in nothing except the colour of the eyes and legs.