709. 
285. 
310. 
692 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —LAMELLIROSTRES— ANSERES. 
A. o. fulvi/gula. (Lat. fulvus, reddish ; quid@troat.) FioripA Dusky Duck. Similar; 
lighter-colored; throat plain pale brownish; bill olive, with black nail and base of commissure 
A loeal race, resident in Florida. 
DA/FILA. (A non-sense word.) Pry-Tam Ducks. Tail (in adult ¢) narrow, cuueate, 
when fully developed nearly as long as wing, the 2 central feathers long-exserted, limear-acute : 
in @ and young the tail merely 
tapering, with acute feathers; tail- 
feathers 16, including the long mid- 
dle pair. Bill shorter than head, 
longer than tarsus, nearly paralle> 
sided, widening a little to the end, 
the nai! small, the narrow nostrils 
high up in basal third of bill. 
Feathers of cheeks sweeping in 
strongly convex outline along side 
of upper mandible, beyond those 
on side of lower mandible. Wing 
acute, the Ist and 2d_ primaries 
subequal and longest, rest rapidly 
graduated. Neck unusually long 
and slender, and form less ‘‘stocky” than that of most ducks. Sexes and young very unlike 
in color, even to the wing-markings, as well as in shape of tail. Bill and feet dark. Under 
parts white or whitish. Speculum of ¢ framed in buff, white, and black. 
D. acu'ta. (Lat. acuta, acute, as the tailis. Figs. 479, 480.) Pin-ram Duck. Sprig-TAru. 
Adult ¢: Bill black, 
with grayish - blue 
edge of upper man- 
dible; feet grayish- 
blue ; claws black; 
iris brown. Head and 
neck above rich dark 
brown, glossed with 
green and _ purple ; 
side of neck with a 
Fic. 479, — Head of Dajila, 9, nat. size. (Ad nat. del. E. C.) 
long white stripe run- 
ning up from the 
white under parts: 
back of neck with a 
black stripe passing 
below into the gray 
color of the back; 
the lower fore-neck, 
breast, and under 
parts usually, white, 
the sides finely waved 
with black, the crissum black, white-bordered. Fore back finely waved with narrow bars of 
black and white or whitish; the seapulars and long tertiaries firmly striped lengthwise with 
velvety-black and silvery-gray. Lesser. wing-coverts plain gray ; greater tipped, with reddish 
buff, framing the speculum anteriorly ; this is of coppery- or purplish-violet iridescence, framed 
posterio-ly with black sub-tips and white tips of the secondaries, internally with silvery and 
Fic. 480 — Pin-tail Duck, 9? ¢. (From Lewis.) 
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