100 FALCATED DUCK. 



LENGTH twenty-one inches : beak red, its hook 

 black : irides hazel : the crown of the head chesnut : 

 the nape streaked with the same : the sides of the head 

 and the throat dirty white : the lower part of the neck 

 rufous-chesnut : the breast and between the shoul- 

 ders ashy-yellow ; the breast palest, with the edges 

 of all the feathers yellowish : the back and scapu- 

 lars chesnut : the inner wing-coverts rufo-cinereous : 

 greater coverts cinereous : the quills black, with the 

 base of most of them white, forming an oblique 

 bar of that colour on the wing : the lower part of 

 the back, the rump, tail, belly, and under the wings 

 are black : the under tail-coverts are mottled with 

 black and white : the legs yellow : claws black. 



Inhabits the West India islands and parts adja- 

 cent : they are very common at New Grenada, in 

 South America, where the inhabitants frequently keep 

 them in the farm-yards ; but they are very quarrel- 

 some, and often fly away. 



FALCATED DUCK. 



(Anas falcaria.) 



AN. cristata, corpore cano Juscoque variegato, pectore undulato, 



fronte gula torque collijasciaque alarum a/bis. 

 Crested Duck with the body variegated with hoary and brown, 



the breast undulated, the forehead, throat, ring on the neck, 



and band on the wing white. 



