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ANAS GLOCITANS. BIMACULATED DUCK. 



Anas glocitans. Gmel. Syst. Nat, I. 526. 



Anas glocitans. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 862. 



Bimaculated Duck. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Canard Glousseur. Anas glocitans. Temm. Man. d'Omith. IV. 533. 



Bimaculated Teal. Querquedula glocitans. Selb. Illustr. II. 321. 



Anas glocitans. Bimaculated Duck. Jen. Brit. Vert., An. 232. 



Querquedula glocitans. Bonap. Comp. List, 57. 



Male ivith the hill an inch and ten-twelfths long, eiglit- 

 ticelfths broad toward the end, greenish-yellotv at the base, 

 olive-brown toward the end ; scapidars and inner secondaries 

 elongated and tapering; tail-feathers acuminate ; vpper ixirt 

 of the head and hind neck deep chestnut-brown ; sides of the 

 head and upper neck glossy green ; on the fore part of the 

 cheek an oblong reddish-broicn patch, and another on the side 

 of the neck; throat greenish-black ; loicer fore part of the neck 

 brownish-red spotted with black; loiver piarts yellowish-u-hite, 

 minutely undulated with black ; feathers under the tail black ; 

 fore part of back and inner scapulars yelloivish-grey, finely 

 undulated with black ; outer scapulars black externally, ligltt 

 red on the inner tveb ; wing-coverts broivnish-grey, the second- 

 ary coverts tipped unth reddish-white; primary quills and. 

 coverts brownish-grey ; specidiim deep green, glossed, with 

 purple, and margined behind with irhite ; hind part of back 

 and tail-coverts greenish-black ; tail-feathers brownish-grey, 

 except the two middle, which are black. Female with the 

 throat yellou'ish-ichite, fore neck, part of the breast and sides, 

 light reddisli-broivn, spotted with dusky brown ; breast and 

 abdomen white, the latter with faint broivn spots ; upper jmrts 

 deep brown, the feathers edged with yellowish- grey ; wing- 

 coverts brownish- grey, the speculum duller than in the male. 



Male. — Not having had an opportunity of examining 

 specimens of this very rare species, Avhich is much smaller 



