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SUMMER DUCK. 
Mas. head and upper part of the neck metallic green; throat 
white; crest long. 
Fem. dark brown, with the belly, space round the eye, and bill 
white ; one white band across the wing. 
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ARBRE CSscsvags sea ransss 20 DARSE Satvendechontssers 12 
3) %, Bineier et eve Ssaauas 13 NM de G00. 255.5 co ssse 2 
Crown, neck, and occipital crest glossy green; line extending 
from the bill over the eye, another from the lower part of the eye to 
the occiput, together with the throat, white; neck and upper part of 
the breast purplish, and sprinkled with spots of white; scapulars, 
wing coverts, and tail black, beautifully glossed in some lights with 
green, and purple inflections; on the lower part of the breast is a 
white bar, posteriorly to which is a black one; flanks yellowish 
ferruginous, barred and undulated with dusky; under tail coverts and 
quills sooty black; below white; bill and legs orange. 
Fem.: dusky slate brown, with a space round the eye, a band 
round the bill, the throat, and belly white; breast dusky, marked 
with triangular spots of white; quills and tail as in the male; legs 
and bill dusky. 
UND RONG asses ie ades¥ 1s oscees ees Boie Isis. 1826. 
Dendronessa Sponsa  ......0.000e Faun, Bo. Am. 2. 446. 
NON C1) Ra Linn, Syst. 1. 207. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 589. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 871. 
ANAS AOS 1.5... ccsveecenevseae Briss. Orn. 6. 351. pl. 32, 
Sig. 2. 
UIMMRER: LUCK «x's wcs.cccnas coisas sna Catesb. Carol. 1. pl. 97. 
Edw. Glea. p. 101. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 546. 
Beau canard, Huppe 1.01.00 Buff. Ois. 9. 254. 
ERMAN rua fawecssmcite a eesane ses Mont. Orn. die, Sup. fig. 5, 
et nobis. 
Inhabits America, from Hudson’s Bay to Mexico, and the Antilles, 
throughout the whole of which space it breeds, seldom frequenting 
the sea. It generally makes its nest in decayed: trees hanging over 
the water, laying twelve or thirteen eggs. 
This species is often kept in confinement in this country, and 
breeds freely, as well as its congener. 
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