FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 67 
a gloss of green and purple finely powdered or speckled with 
reddish brown. 
The wings have the first quill feather the longest; greater 
wing coverts, white at the base, forming a bar across the 
wing, and otherwise rather light dusky brown, glossed with 
green and purple, and finely speckled with reddish brown; 
lesser wing coverts, rather light dusky brown, glossed with 
green and purple, and finely speckled with reddish brown; 
primaries, dusky blackish brown glossed with green, part of 
the inner webs white, and the bases; secondaries, black at 
the ends, the remainder, including the speculum, white, below 
it a black band edged with greyish white; tertiaries, dusky 
brown glossed with green and purple, finely speckled with 
reddish brown. The tail, of fourteen feathers, is dusky brownish 
black, with a faint tinge of ferruginous—it is slightly wedge- 
shaped; upper tail coverts, dusky ferruginous black, which 
colour comes downwards on the sides, distinctly contrasting 
with the white of these parts; under tail coverts, white, 
shewing a triangular-shaped spot. Legs and toes, which are 
rather large, dusky brownish grey, the middle toe is rather 
longer than the outer one; claws, black; webs, dusky. 
In the summer change of plumage the male resembles the 
female, but is somewhat brighter-plumaged, the spots not so 
large, and more on the white of the breast. 
The female, rather less in size than the male, and her 
colours less pure, especially the chesnut and white on the 
breast, has the bill blackish grey; iris, not so distinctly white; 
head, crown, and neck, dark brown, with edgings of reddish 
or chesnut brown to the feathers, the sides of the head the 
brightest coloured; the ring round the neck is indistinct; the 
white on the chin is less extended than in the male. The 
breast above, brown, the feathers margined with pale chesnut 
brown, lower down mottled all over with dusky and pale 
brown, below white, on the sides and flanks yellowish brown; 
back above, deep glossy dusky brown, with paler edgings to 
the feathers, below duil white. The ‘ridge of the wings is 
white; primaries, greenish black at the ends, light-coloured 
towards the base; secondaries, white, tipped with greenish 
black, thus exhibiting the speculum. Tail, blackish brown; 
the upper tail coverts do not descend to the sides with the 
black markings; under tail coverts, white. Legs and toes, 
blackish grey. 
The young is of duller tints, the upper parts being of two 
