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Key to Plate No. 9 Plate No. 9 -> 



WINTER PLUMAGES 



(A) BALDPATE, adult male. 



(B) BALDPATE, adult male wing. 



(C) BALDPATE, adult female. 



(D) BALDPATE, adult female wing. 



Chief distinguishing- features of BALDPATE: MALE, (a) Hind toe with- 

 out lobe, (b) head, with white crown and green patch on face and hind 

 head, (c) underwing lining, pale grey, not mottled, axillars white or only 

 sparsely flecked with grey, (d) bill, much shorter than head, greyish blue, 

 with tip, extreme base and lower mandible, black. FEMALE, (a) Hind toe 

 without lobe, (b) dull black speculum, with or without green, bordered 

 inwardly with white, (c) blue-grey feet, (d) underwing surface, pale ashy, 

 not mottled; axillars white. 



(E) EUROPEAN WIDGEON, adult male. 



(F) EUROPEAN WIDGEON, adult male wing. 



(G) EUROPEAN WIDGEON, adult female. 



(II) EUROPEAN WIDGEON, adult female wing. 



Chief distinguishing features of EUROPEAN WIDGEON: MALE, (a) 

 Hind toe without lobe, (b) creamy crown, on red head, (c) underwing sur- 

 face, ashy, mottled with grey. FEMALE, (a) Hind toe without lobe, (b) 

 dull, dark speculum, usually with green gloss, bordered inwardly with 

 white, (c) blue-grey feet, (d) underwing surface, mottled with grey; 

 axillars speckled. 



Autumn Plumage, Bald-pat e, Plate No. 11. 



Downy Young, Plate No, 33. 



Text: Baldpate, page 183; European Widgeon, page 180. 



