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are uniformly black, both webs of the 

 feathers being of quite the same shade. 

 The first secondary is brown with a broad 

 white margin on the outer web ; the 

 succeeding shorter secondaries are brown 

 on the concealed inner web, black with 

 a slight greenish gloss on the outer web, 

 except two or three feathers in the middle 

 of the black patch thus formed, which 

 are of a brilliant green or coppery bronze 

 on the outer web. All these secondaries 

 are also tipped broadly with pale buff. 

 The longer inner secondaries are pale 

 brown. The whole lower plumage and 

 the sides of the breast and body are 

 dull rufous, each feather with a large 

 round brown spot ; these spots being very 

 distinct on the breast, but somewhat 

 blurred on the other parts. The axillaries 

 are pure white, and the under wing-coverts 

 are black with a white patch in the 

 middle of the lower margin. 



In the large series of this Duck in the 

 British Museum, there are three specimens 

 which exhibit a certain amount of white 

 on the face. A pair, shot in May, 

 have a considerable space round the eye 

 white, and they have also a patch of 

 white on either side of the base of the 

 upper mandible, and some white marks 



