BLACK-TAILED WIGEON, 



(Mareca melanura.) 



MA. cinerca, rostro pedibusque testaceis, vertice dorsoque rufis, 



remigibus rectricibusque nigris. 

 Ash-coloured Wigeon with the beak and legs testaceous, the 



crown and back rufous, the quills and tail-feathers black. 

 Anas melanura. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.516. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 86 1 . 



THIS bird is said to be rather less than the Wild 

 Duck ; with the temples ash-coloured, and the rump 

 black, spotted with white j and to have a great affinity 

 to the Common Wigeon. 



SPOTTED-BILLED WIGEON. 



(Mareca psecilorhyncha.) 



MA. nigra, genis cum partejuguli cinereis; alarum speculo viridi 

 supra albo, subtus albo nigroque cincto, remigibus secondariis 

 albidis. 



Black Wigeon with the cheeks and part of the jugulum ash- 

 coloured, the wing speculum green, white above, beneath white, 

 banded with black, the secondary quills whitish. 



Anas peecilorhyncha. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 535. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 850. 



Spotted-billed Duck. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 487. 



COMMON in Ceylon in the East Indies : the beak 

 long and black, with a red spot on each side at its 



