42 WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 
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ward the middle of the ungines, the frontal angles pro- 
longed and pointed. 
Head of moderate size. Neck, rather long and slender. 
Body, full and depressed. Wings,rather small. Feet, 
very short, strong, placed rather far back ; tarsus, very 
short, considerably depressed. 
Plumage, dense, soft, blended, generally glossed. 
Feathers of the middle of the head and upper part of 
the hind neck, very narrow, elongated, and uncurved ; 
of the rest of the head and upper part of the neck very 
short; of the back and lower parts in general broad 
and rounded, excepting on the shoulder before the 
wings, where they are enlarged, very broad and abrupt. 
Wings, of moderate length, narrow and acute. Tail of 
moderate length, rather broad, much rounded, of six- 
teen round feathers. 
Upper mandible, bright red at the base, yellowish at 
the sides; the intermediate space along the ridge and 
the ungines, black, as in the lower mandible and its 
membranes. Iris and edges of eyelids, bright red. Feet 
dull orange; claws black; upper part of the head and 
space between the bill and the eye, deep green and 
highly glossed ; below the latter space a patch of dark 
purple and a larger one of the same color, but lighter 
behind the eye; side of the neck, its hind part under 
the crest and the middle all round very dark purple. 
Throat, for more than three inches, pure white, with a 
process on each side a little beyond the eye, and an- 
other nearly half way down the throat. Sides of the 
neck and its lower part anteriorly, reddish purple, each 
feather over the latter with a triangular white tip. 
Middle of the neck behind, back, and rump, very dark 
reddish brown; the latter deeper and tinged with 
