394 



WEB-FOOTED BIRDS. 



In a beautiful and very perfect male, the throat and neck is of a 

 clear brownish-white with blackish streaks. Above deep dusky, the 

 feathers but slightly edged with dull brown ; with the scapulars and 

 primaries towards their points glossed with pale green. Speculum 

 blue, with splendid green and amethyst-red reflections, bordered 

 with black and slenderly edged also with white, the posterior bound- 

 ary on the tertiaries ample, and deep velvet-black. The 2 central 

 tail coverts, slightly reflected upwards at the tips. Inner lining of 

 the wing and axillaries pale cream-white. Bill bright yellow-olive, 

 the nail, tip beneath and laminae black. Legs and feet salmon-red 

 mixed with dusky, which extends over the webs. 



SUMMER, OR WOOD DUCK. 



(Anas sponsa, Linn. Lath. Synops. iii. p. 546. Wilson, viii. p. 

 97. pi. 78. fig. 3. BoNAP. Syn. No. 328. Dendronessa sponsa, 

 Richard and Swains. North Zool. ii. p. 446. Summer Duck, 

 Catesby. i. p. 97. Edwards, pi. 101. Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 

 286. No. 493. Le beau Canard hupd de la Caroline, Buff. PI. 

 Enlum. 980, 981. Phil. Museum, No. 2872.) 



Sp. Charact. — With a metallic gloss, the throat white : a pendant 

 crest ; speculum purplish-blue, tipped with white ', under wing 



