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to the coverts immediately above them 

 being brown, not white. The primaries 

 and the outer secondaries resemble those 

 of the male, the concealed black bases 

 of the latter forming, as in the male, a 

 broad black bar across the wing, below 

 the white wing-coverts. All the inner, 

 long secondaries are dark brown. 



Ducklings change from down into a 

 plumage resembling that of the female. 

 The young drakes do not appear to 

 assume the full plumage of the old drake 

 until the second autumn. 



Male : length about 25 ; wing 9I ; 

 tail 3|. Female: length about 22|; 

 wing 8| j tail 35. The male has the 

 bill deep vermilion, with the ridge dusky. 

 The legs are also deep vermilion. In 

 the female the bill and legs are paler red. 

 In both sexes the irides are blood-red ; in 

 the young they are yellow. The weight 

 is said to run up to about 2 lb. 



