66 
IN. IN. IN. 
Length reves 24 Bale vcve 22 LAPSE cee 1$ 
Male: crown, throat, cheeks, and upper part of the neck brown, — 
with purple inflections; back part of the neck black, bordered on 
each side with white; fore neck and below white; speculum green, 
bordered above with buff, below with white; scapulars black, with 
light-buff edges; back and flanks white, undulated with lines of 
- black; middle tail feathers (elongated) grey-black; bill lead-coloured; 
feet and tarsi reddish; eyes brown. ~ 
Fem.: smaller than the male; brown, with the edges of the 
feathers light; lower parts lighter; scapulars buff, margined above ~ 
with lighter, below with white; middle tail feathers slightly elon- 
gated. During the summer months the male assumes nearly the 
plumage of the female, being ferruginous below. 
ANGS CAUAACUEE .oeererecvesnoeere Rati Syn. 147. A. 5. 
Dafila caudacuta siecscccrceceese Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 127. 
AUT GONG ccirad as dododiaiver vevee Linn. Syst. 1. 202. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 528. 
Wils. Am. Orn. 8. 75. 
Querquedula ACUtA .....seeeccceee Selb. TIllust. Brit. Orn. 
Ol... B14. 2 
PTTCLCD < scsaesaiatwans tinseassnjecs Linn. Trans. vol. 4, tab. 18, 
Sig. 6. 
A very widely distributed species, being found over Asia, Europe, 
America, and the north of Africa as far as the Gamba, from whence 
we have received them in the summer state of plumage. Breeds in 
Holland and Germany in morasses, building its nest of flags and 
grass, and laying eight eggs of a greenish blue colour. 
DAFILA MARMORATA. 
Daf.—Toto corpore marmorato obscuro et subfusco. 
MARBLED DUCK. 
Duck, with the whole body marbled with dark and light brown. 
IN. : 
LANGE isa snseewensees 18 LANCET LOR». serunauaten 528 12 
Psilbe (ro aawniterseanoks 1 4-5ths Middle toe ..........., 1% 
WATS sissy nap osabtaese 13 Outed G00 = ve tishs nanan 13 
