GADWALL, OR GREY. 



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The female resembles the male only in the wings. The upper 

 plumage and the tail are mostly liver-brown, with pale brown mar- 

 gins and horse-shoe shaped bars. — The upper parts of the head are 

 darker ; and the sides of the head and neck more finely marked. 

 The under plumage yellowish-grey, obscurely spotted with brown ; 

 the breast tinged with chestnut. 



Note. I have received two specimens, said to be wild, which 

 measure about 30 inches in length, and agree in most particulars 

 with the common species ; but in the adult the primaries are ichite, 

 the tail feathers wholly grey ; and the whole neck and breast as well 

 as abdomen are of the same uniform grey and finely mottled color, 

 with only a slight general tint of pale rufous. In the other male 

 moulting into adult plumage, the primaries are dark-grey; and the 

 grey of the breast is more distinctly waved with pale rufous. Mr. 

 Cooper of New York, has also met with similar large specimens, and 

 considers them as hybrids. What the}' are, or how originated, I am 

 unable to determine, and thus merely call attention to the subject. 



GADWALL, OR GREY. 



(Anas strepera, Lin. Lath. Ind. sp. 69. Wilson, viii. p. 120. pi. 

 71. fig. 1. Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 838. Richard. North. Zool. 

 ii. p. 440. BoNAP. Synops. No. 324. Gadwall, Penn. Arct. Zool. 

 ii. L. Le Chipeau, Buff. Pi. Enlum. 958. [male.] Montagu, Orn. 

 Diet. [ed. alt. cum ic] Phil. Museum, No. 2750.) 



