FALCATED DUCK. 101 



Anas falcaria. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 521. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 860. 

 Falcated Duck. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 574. pi. 23. Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. 6. 516. 



DESCRIBED by Latham from a specimen in his 

 collection : it is, says he, the " size of a Wigeon : 

 length one foot six inches : the beak an inch and a 

 half long, and black : the feathers of the back part 

 of the head, and a little way down the neck, long and 

 crested : the forehead and crown dull ferruginous ; 

 in the middle, near the base of the beak, a spot of 

 white : round the eyes, hind head, and crest shining 

 green, varied with copper, especially on the temples : 

 chin white : beneath this two collars, the first of a 

 greenish-black, and springs from the crest ; the lower 

 is white : the rest of the neck and breast cinereous, 

 undulated with brown : back grey, the upper part 

 obscurely lineated with a paler colour : the belly 

 dotted with grey and white : vent black, the sides of 

 it white, divided transversely by a black band : shoul- 

 ders grey, and somewhat undulated : scapulars grey, 

 and curve inwards at the ends : speculum of a fine 

 blue-green ; above it a white band : wings as long as 

 the tail : legs lead colour." 



Native of the eastern parts of Siberia j also of 

 Kamtschatka and China. 



