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bright purple, with splendid green reflections edged 
with black, the feathers broadly tipped with white. 
Length twenty-nine inches, wing eleven. Female 
with the upper part of the head and hind neck dark 
brown, streaked with dusky; sides of the throat and 
fore neck lighter; a few touches of rust color on 
the chin and on the base of the bill. Upper plu- 
mage brown, the feathers margined and tipped 
with brownish-white; lower plumage brownish- 
white, mottled with brown; speculum less exten- 
sive, and without the lengthened tail feathers so 
conspicuous in the male. 
This duck is more abundant in the neighborhood 
of the great lakes than along the margin of the 
ocean; in epicurean qualities it ranks with the 
black duck. 
W oov-Duck. 
Summer-Duck. 
Anas Sponsa, Aud. 
Specific Character.—The pendant crest, the 
throat, upper portion of the fore neck, and bands 
on the sides of the neck white, with the speculum 
blue, glossed with green and tipped with white. 
Adult male with the bill bright red at the base, the 
sides yellow; between the nostrils a black spot 
reaching nearly to the black, hooked nail; the head 
is furnished with long silken feathers, which fall 
gracefully over the hind neck, in certain lights 
exhibiting all the colors of the rainbow; a narrow 
