The True Ducks. 



the head and neck are dull chestnut 

 spotted with black, without the buff 

 patch ; upper breast and flanks dull 

 ferruginous." 



As I have not been able to examine 

 any specimen of a Wigeon which could 

 be satisfactorily determined as being a 

 male in post-nuptial plumage, I am unable 

 to throw any further light on the matter 

 from my own investigations. 



The adult female, in newly-moulted 

 plumage, has the forehead and crown 

 brown barred with fulvous. The sides 

 of the head, the chin, throat, and the 

 whole neck are fulvous, spotted and 

 streaked with brown. The whole upper 

 plumage and the scapulars are brown, 

 each feather margined with fulvous or 

 pale rufous. The tail-feathers are brown, 

 narrowly margined with whitish. The 

 whole breast and the sides of the body 

 are rather bright fulvous, all the feathers 

 with paler edges. The lower plumage is 

 white, the under tail-coverts with large 

 brown central streaks. The axillaries are 

 white, very thickly mottled with brown. 

 The under wing-coverts are mottled ashy 

 brown. The upper wing-coverts are 

 brown, margined with white, the lower- 

 most row whitish tipped with black. The 



