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WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 



undulated with brownish black and light brownish red ; 

 the hind part similarly undulated with blackish brown 

 and grayish white. The smaller wing coverts are 

 brownish gray ; the primary quills and coverts dark 

 grayish brown ; the secondary coverts white, tipped 

 with black. The speculum is dusk-green anteriorly, 

 bounded by the black tips of the secondary coverts. 

 The tail feathers are light brownish gray. The throat 

 is brownish black ; -the lower part of the neck in front, 

 and the fore part of the breast light brownish red ; the 

 breast, belly, and sides of the rump white ; the sides 

 of the body finely undulated with white and dusky ; 

 the rump beneath and the lower tail coverts black. 



Length to the end of the tail, twenty and a half 

 inches ; extent of wings, thirty-four and a half ; weight, 

 1 pound 14 ounces. 



Adult Female. The female is considerably smaller. 

 The bill, feet and iris are colored as in the male. The 

 head and upper part of the neck all around are white 

 or reddish- white, longitudinally streaked with brown- 

 ish-black. The top of the head transversely barred ; 

 the lower part of the neck in front and behind, the fore 

 part of the back, and the scapulars are blackish-brown ; 

 the feathers broadly margined with brownish-red, and 

 barred with the same ; the bars on the neck narrow ; 

 the hind part of the back dusky ; the upper tail coverts 

 barred with white. The wings are grayish brown ; the 

 secondary coverts tipped with white ; the secondary 

 quills are brownish black ; the inner, grayish brown, all 

 margined with white. All the lower parts are white, 

 excepting the feathers of the sides and under the tail 

 which are broadly barred with dusky and light reddish 

 brown. 



