100 yonrii AMEnic.iy JunDS. 



Gemus CAIRINA Flemino.' (Page 87.) 



Species. 



Adult male : Head, neck, and lower parts, uniform glossy brownish black ; 

 upper parts brilliant metallic blackish green, glossed with pur|ilc anteriorly and on 

 rump; wing-coverts, above and below, entirely pure white; caruncles along sides 

 of forehead, etc., bright pinkish red, or rose-red, in life ; bill varied with blackish 

 aii<l pinkish white or light rose-color; length nearly 3 feet, wing about 16.00, 

 tail 9.00, tarsus 2.00, or more. Adult female : Entirely brownish black, except some 

 of the upper greater wing-coverts, which are white; upper parts glossed with 

 metallic green and purjile ; length about 2 feet, wing 12.50, tail 5.50, tarsus 

 2.00. Ifab. Tropical America, from Paraguay and southern Brazil to Mexico; 

 Louisiana? 



C. moschata (FjIxn.). Muscovy Duck.^ 



Gexu.s NETTA Kaup. (Pago 85, pi. XXIII., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Adult male : Head and upper neck vinaceous-rufous, the full, soft, " bushy" 

 crest paler, and more ochraceous; lower neck, stripe along hind-neck, most of the 

 lower parts, and rump, uniform brownish black; back and scapulars light brown, 

 with a broad transverse bar, or patch, on outer portion of scapular region; specu- 

 lum chiefly white; anterior border and under side of wing, and a very large patch 

 on flanks, white; bill and feet bright vermilion-red in life; length about 21.00, 

 wing 10.20, culmen 2.00. Adult female : Crest much smaller than in male; upper 

 half of head and stripe down hind-neck, light hair-brown ; rest of head and neck, 

 with lower parts in general, pale grayish, the chest and sides more brownish ; 

 rump dark brownish ; no white sca]>ular patch, antl white anterior border to wing 

 indistinct; bill dusky or brownish, the tip paler (jjinkish in life); wing 9.90, cul- 

 men 1.90. Immature male: Much like the adtdt female, but crest still less devel- 

 oped, and more retldish ; under part and sides of head interspersed with cinnamon- 

 colored feathers; breast, etc., mi.xed with black feathers; white scapular ])atcli 

 distinctly indicated. Downy young : Upper parts dull olive-graj-, lower parts and 

 scapular spot pale yellowish gray; lores with two olive-gray stripes, one ascending 

 over eye, and bordering a j-ellowish gray superciliary stripe, the other passing 

 below the eye, across cheeks and ear-coverts. Eiigs 2.19 X 1-^8, pale olive-buff. 

 Hah. Southern and eastern Europe, together with portions of Africa and Asia; 

 accidental in ca^itern United States (Fulton Market, New York CityV 



145. N. rufina (P.\ll.). Eufous-crested Duck. 



1 Cnirinn " Flkminr, Phil, of Zool. 1.122. 2fi(l." Typo, Anaii moochnta LiSN. 



> ^iin« moHchata Li.vx., S. N. cd. 10, i. 1758, 121. Cttiriua motchain " Flkm., Pbilos. Zool. 1S22, 260." 



