168 WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 
undulated with brownish black and light brownish red ; 
the hind part similarly undulated with blackish brown 
and grayish white. The smaller wing coverts are 
brownish gray; the primary quills and coverts dark 
grayish brown; the secondary coverts white, tipped 
with black. The speculum is dusk-green anteriorly, 
bounded by the black tips of the secondary coverts- 
The tail feathers are light brownish gray. The throat 
is brownish black ; the lower part of the neck in front, 
and the fore part of the breast ight brownish red; the 
breast, belly, and sides of the rump white; the sides 
of the body finely undulated with white and dusky ; 
the rump beneath and the lower tail coverts black. 
Length to the end of the tail, twenty and a half 
inches ; extent of wings, thirty-four and a half; weight, 
1 pound 14 ounces. 
Adult Female—The female is considerably smaller. 
The bill, feet and iris are colored as in the male. The 
head and upper part of the neck all around are white 
or reddish-white, longitudinally streaked with brown- 
ish-black. The top of the head transversely barred: 
the lower part of the neck in front and behind, the fore 
part of the back, and the scapulars are blackish-brown ; 
the feathers broadly margined with brownish-red, and 
barred with the same; the bars on the neck narrow : 
the hind part of the back dusky ; the upper tail coverts 
barred with white. The wings are grayish brown ; the 
secondary coverts tipped with white; the secondary 
quills are brownish black; the inner, grayish brown, all 
margined with white. All the lower parts are white. 
excepting the feathers of the sides and under the tail 
which are broadly barred with dusky and light reddisk 
brown. 
