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whole abdomen is streaked with brown. 

 Each of these brown streaks has a fulvous 

 or buff margin on either side. 



Males, in post-nuptial plumage, resemble 

 the females closely, and are only to be 

 distinguished by the black crown and a 

 dark stripe through the eye. 



The adult female has the chin, throat 

 and foreneck plain fulvous. The remainder 

 of the head and neck is closely streaked 

 with narrow black and fulvous lines. The 

 whole upper plumage, with the scapulars 

 and upper tail-coverts, is dark brown or 

 black, each feather margined and dia- 

 gonally banded with fulvous. The tail- 

 feathers are similar, but with whitish 

 margins. The upper wing-coverts are 

 brown, but otherwise the whole wing is 

 quite similar to that of the male. The 

 whole lower plumage is fulvous, marked 

 with brown ; the marks on the breast 

 being crescentic, those on the abdomen 

 elongated, spots, those on the sides of the 

 body diagonal bands, and, finally, those 

 on the under tail-coverts streaks. The 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts are pure 

 white. At times, the abdomen is plain or 

 very slightly spotted. 



Ducklings change into a first plumage 

 which resembles that of the female, and 



