110 KEKUSKA DUCK. 



the hinJ part of the head, the neck, and the breast, 

 black : the back and lesser wing-coverts are of a deep 

 ashy-grey, barred with two bands of very pale grey : 

 the belly and vent are pale grey : the legs are black. 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



KEKUSKA DUCK. 



(Anas Kekuschka.) 



AN. ochracea subtus nivea, dorso cinereo, uropygio caudaque ni- 



gerrimis. 

 Ochraceous Duck beneath snowy, with the back ash-coloured, 



the rump and tail very black. 

 Anas Kekuschka. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 531. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 877. 

 Kekuschka Duck. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 356. 



UPWARDS of nineteen inches in length : the pre- 

 vailing colour of the plumage is of a yellow ochre 

 hue, with the under parts white : the back is cine- 

 reous : the rump and tail deep black : the quills, 

 from the fifteenth to the nineteenth, white at the 

 tips. Inhabits the neighbourhood of the Caspian 

 Sea. 



