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erectile plumes on the nape, these being tipped with tawnv-buff, and 

 the pale tips crossed with lines of black; eyebrow, sides of face, and 

 sides of the neck tawny-buff, the eyebrow uniform except on the under 

 edge, where the feathers are barred with black; ear-coverts scarcely 

 marked at all, but the plumes of the sides of the neck narrowly barred 

 with black, and elongated into a frill which covers the hind neck, the 

 latter being clothed in dense down of a tawny-buff-color; the feathers 

 below the eye, and a streak along the cheeks and down the sides of the 

 neck, black; malar line of feathers and throat creamy white, with a 

 central line of reddish buff feathers slightly mottled with black bases ; the 

 lower throat also creamy white, with four or five tolerably defined broad 

 lines of tawny -buff and black-mottled feathers; the lower part of the 

 ruff on the fore neck with narrow wavy lines of black ; the breast covered 

 with ^o^^Ti of a tawny-buff-color, and hidden by a large patch of loose 

 plumes on each side of the chest, which are mostly black with tawny-buff 

 margins; remainder of under surface creamy M'hite, streaked with black 

 centers to the feathers, the black markings slightly broken up with 

 mottlings of tawny-buff; thighs and under tail-coverts with scarcely any 

 markings whatever; under w'ing-coverts and axillars tawny-buff, the 

 former narrowly lined with blackish, the axillars more distinctly barred 

 with dusky blackish. 'Bill greenish yellow ; legs and feet yellowish green ; 

 claws dark brown; iris yellow; bare space before the eye yellowish green.' 

 (Seebohm.) Length, about 610; culmen, 69; M'ing, 330; tail 113; 

 tarsus, 96. 



"Two of the three specimens collected by Mr. Eobert Bergman at 

 Yokohama are apparently young birds and have the primary-coverts and 

 quills almost uniform, wdth a certain amount of rufous mottlings con- 

 fined to the inner webs; in this state of plumage B. stellaris has a great 

 resemblance to B. pceciloptilus but is always to be distinguished from the 

 last-named bird by the tawny-colored frill on the sides of the neck, instead 

 of the smoky brown one peculiar to the Australian bird." (Sharpe.) 



Order A:NSEIlirOEMES. 



DUCKS AND GEESE. 



Bill stout, compressed at base, flattened at tip, wliicli is blunt or rounded 

 or rarely spatulate {Spatula), and covered with soft, leatliery membrane 

 except the hard overhanging "nail" at tip; nostril from subbasal to sub- 

 terminal, open and usually oval; neck small and iisually long; body 

 compact, heavy, flattened, densely covered with short feathers ; wings 

 stiff, strong, and rather pointed ; tail usually short and rounded and 

 fairly stiff', never forked and but rarely long and pointed {Dafila) ; legs 



