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broadly tipped with black; secondary coverts to- 
wards their ends white, broadly tipped with black; 
adult male with the entire head and upper part of 
the neck bright green, with a few touches of red- 
dish-brown passing from the forehead, on the occi- 
put; middle of the neck with a white ring; the 
lower part of the neck and breast reddish-brown, 
approaching to chocolate ; fore part of the back light 
brown, rest of the back darker; rump black; upper 
tail coverts greenish-black ; upper parts of the wings 
brown, intermixed with grey; breast, sides, flanks, 
and abdomen, grey, transversely barred with dusky ; 
bill greenish-yellow ; feet reddish-orange ; tail round- 
ed, consisting of sixteen pointed feathers, nearly 
white; speculum violet; length two feet, wing 
eleven inches. 
Female smaller than the male; speculum less bril- 
liant; general plumage brown; head and _ neck 
streaked with dusky; the feathers on the back and 
flanks margined with white, with a central spot of 
brown on the outer webs; bill black, changing to 
orange at the extremity. 
This bird is abundant both at the West and along 
the coast, but on the fresh water it frequents the 
mud-holes and shallow marshes, in contradistinction 
to the open water-ducks that affect the broad un- 
broken stretches of water. 
