30. IIARECA. 231 



Anas penelope X A. acuta, Cromm. N. T. B. ii. p. 296 (1865) ; Leverk. 



j;/. 0. 1890, pp. 210, 230. 

 Anas penelope X A. crecca, Leverk. J.f. 0. 1890, p. 230. 



Adult male. Forehead and top of the head buff, rest of the head 

 and neck cinnamon, minutely spotted, especially round the eyes, 

 with bottle-green ; chin and throat more or less black ; mantle, 

 ])ack, and scapulars grey, crossed with irregular zigzag lines of 

 black : central tail-feathers paler, almost whitish ; lateral tail- 

 feathers like the under taU-coverts, black ; lower fore neck and 

 sides of the breast yinaceous ; middle of the breast and abdomen 

 white ; sides, flanks, and under wing-coverts grey, with zigzag lines 

 like the back ; wing-coverts white, the largest tipped with black ; 

 primaries uniform dark brown ; outer webs of the secondaries green, 

 forming a speculum, edged with black ; black outer webs of the 

 secondaries broadly edged with white ; tail-feathers elongated, 

 pointed, and nearly black : irides dark brown ; biU bluish lead- 

 colour, tipped with black ; legs, toes, and their membranes dark 

 brown. Total length 18 inches, wing lO'o, tail 4-6, culmen 1'55, 

 tarsus 1*55. 



Female. Head and neck pale reddish brown, speckled with 

 blackish ; upper parts brown, each feather with pale whitish edges, 

 the edges of the scapulars reddish brown ; breast and sides reddish 

 brown ; under surface white ; under tail-coverts white, with 

 irregular brown bars or spots ; primaries dark brown, secondaries 

 dull black, slightly tipped with white ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 but the larger ones tipped with white ; tail dull greyish brown : 

 irides brown ; bill bluish black. 



Young male. Resembles more or less the female. 



Nestling " may be distinguished by the warm rufous tint of the 

 cheeks and throat and the absence of any loral streak ; the upper 

 parts are, moreover, of an almost uniform brown, with hardly any 

 signs of bars on the pinions " (Tarrell). 



Hall. PalffiarcticPicgion, breeding in thecolder regions from Iceland 

 to Kamtschatka, wintering in the more southern latitudes, in Africa 

 as far as Madeira and Abyssinia, in Persia, in Xorthern India, 

 Burma, China, Japan, Borneo, and even as a straggler in the 

 Marshall Islands ; also occasionally in Eastern North America, fre- 

 quently in Alaska ; it straggles even to California. 



a. (S imm. sk. No locality. Zool. Soc. 



b, c. cJ ad. et imm. Great Britain. Purchased, 

 sk. 



d. c? ad. sk. Orkneys. H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 «,/• d2ad.sk. Sutherland, June. Col. Irbv & Capt. 



Reid [P.]. 

 ff. Imm. sk. St. Andrew's, Fifeshire (Ii. Tweeddale Coll. 



G. W. R.). 

 h. 2 juv. sk. R. Can-on, Stirlingshire, Jan. Tweeddale Coll. 



{J. A. Harvie- Brown). 

 i. S ad. St. Llandilo, Wales. H. Peel, Esq. [P.]. 



