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patch, surrounding the eye, reaching to 

 the bill in front, and to the side of the 

 throat below. The forehead, the crown, 

 the crest and the sides of the head are 

 chestnut. The chin, the throat, the 

 foreneck and the whole lower plumage, 

 with the axillaries, are pure white, the 

 breast tinged with ashy and with a 

 brownish band across the base of the 

 foreneck. The sides of the body are 

 ashy brown ; the under wing-coverts, a 

 mixture of white and brown. The whole 

 upper plumage and the scapulars are 

 dark ashy brown, the back and rump 

 almost black, and every feather margined 

 paler. The tail is ashy brown. The 

 whole wing, in every feature, resembles 

 that of the adult male. 



Ducklings change from the down into 

 a plumage resembling that of the adult 

 female, but the face is chestnut like the 

 crown, there being no trace of any dark 

 patch on that part of the head. The 

 white upper wing-coverts are also margined 

 with grey or brown, and the feathers 

 of the crown and crest are tipped with 

 black. According to Macgillivray, the 

 drake does not assume the full plumage 

 of the adult till the third autumn. 



Male: length about 17^; wing 8; tail 



