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STELLER'S DUCK. 



Eniconetta stelleri (Pall.). 



In the adult male, most of the head and upper portion 

 of neck are satiny white; the space between base of bill 

 and eye and the tuft running across the back of the 

 head, dark olive-green. The space about the eye, chin 

 and throat, and band about the lower neck, the middle 

 of the back, the long shoulder feathers, tertiaries and 

 secondaries, glossy blue-black. The rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and tail, somewhat duller black. The scapulars 

 are streaked lengthwise with white, while the tertiaries 

 have the inner webs of the feathers fully white, and the 

 secondaries are tipped with white. The wing-coverts, 

 some of the scapulars and the sides of the back are 

 white. The quills of the wing are dull black, while the 

 lower parts are rusty-reddish, darkest in the middle of 



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