RUFOUS-CRESTED DUCK. 



Netta ruHna ( Pall. ) . 



The adult male has the sides of head and throat pur- 

 plish-brown, darker on the throat, and changing to 

 pale reddish at the front and base of the crest, becoming 

 paler toward the tips of the feathers. The lower half 

 of the neck, with a narrow strip running up the back of 

 the neck to the head, the breast, belly, lower tail-coverts, 

 upper tail-coverts and rump, black ; darkest on the neck 

 and breast, and with greenish reflections on upper tail- 

 coverts. Back, grayish-brown, growing darker toward 

 the rump. The scapulars, or shoulder feathers, brown- 

 ish-yellow. Speculum, white tipped with gray. The 

 bend of the wing, white, as are also the primaries, ex- 

 cept the tips of some of the outer ones, which are gray- 



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