WATER FOWL. 



A NA S FUL VIG ULA MA C ULOSA . 



Geographical Dtstribution.—^a.i>\.%x\\ Texas, Louisiana, north 

 to Kansas. 

 Mr. Sennett's description of this bird is as follows: 

 " Top of head, blackish brown, margined with very pale buflf. 

 Chin and throat, Isabella color. Cheeks, bufify white, with narrow 

 streaks of dark brown. Feathers of breast, wings, upper parts, 

 and flanks, blackish brown, margined with pale buff. Under 

 parts, buffy white, each feather with a broad blackish brown mark 

 near the tip, giving a decidedly mottled appearance. Under 

 tail coverts, blackish, with outer margins of inner webs reddish 

 buff; those of outer webs, buffy white. The four median feathers 

 of tail, blaekish brown; the others, fuscous, margined with pale 

 buff, and a V-shaped mark, as in A.ftilvigula, but of a buffy 

 white. Under surface of all tail feathers, light gray, excepting 

 the four median, which are blackish brown. Lining of wing, 

 white. Speculum, metallic purple, feathers tipped with white. 

 Bill has a small black spot on base of lower edge of upper man- 

 dible, as in A. fulvigula. Feet, reddish orange. Wing, lo 

 inches; culmen, 2^; tarsus, i|; middle toe and claw, li." 



