RUB ID US, 

 RUDDY DUCK. 



[Plate LXXL .Fig. 6, Female*} 

 PEALE'S Museum, No. 2809. 



THIS is nearly of the same size as the male; the front, lores, 

 and crown, deep blackish brown; bill as in the male, very 

 broad at the extremity, and largely toothed on the sides, of the 

 same rich blue; cheeks a dull cream ; neck plain dull drab, sprin- 

 kled about the auriculars with blackish; lower part of the neck 

 and breast variegated with gray, ash, and reddish brown; the 

 reddish dies off towards the belly, leaving this last of a dull 

 white shaded with dusky ash; wings as in the male, tail brown; 

 scapulars dusky brown thickly sprinkled with whitish, giving 

 them a gray appearance; legs ash. 



A particular character of this sp ecies is its tapering sharp 

 pointed tail, the feathers of which are very narrow; the body 

 is short; the bill very nearly as broad as some of those called 

 Shovellers; the lower mandible much narrower than the upper. 



* This a young 1 male, and not a female. 



