KIVI'U 



135. Anas strepera, !.. <,M.\M. <;KAV DI.K. Ad. 4. 

 lie hca.1 streaked with rufous-hrwn and black ; side* of the bead and 



neck pale butJy, thi.-kly streaked or *|itt.-.l with black ; breast and neck all 

 around black, each feather with n border and mi internal ring of white, giving 

 the plumage a Iwautifully walt-d ap[>carancc ; U-lly white or grayish; rump, 

 upju-r iul un-liT lull coverts black; leaser wing -co\rrts rfmtnvt. Ad. 9. 

 Head and throat as in tin- male; back fuscous margined with buffy; breast 

 and tide* oehraceous bully, thickly sjx>ttcd with blackish ; belly and under 

 Uil covt-rts white, more or lew thickly spotted with black iidi ; little or no 

 . <>n w ing co\ rrt.- ; i>|xvuluin ashy gray and white ; axillan and under 

 win k '-covert*/ir wkitt. L., 18-60; W., 10-40; Tar., 1-66; B., 170. 



Ka*yt. Nurtlu-rn hrtnis].h< n- , in America, breed* in the interior locally 

 fn-in Kun.-a.-* northward to the uivtii- rei;ii>na ; known to breed on the Atlantic 

 ooaiit only at Aniir'-ti ; winters from Vir^iniu t<> Fl<>ri<la and Texas. 



\Voh inifton. OOIIIIIHUI W. V., S.'j.t. to Apl. I.i-inr Inland, A. V. 



Aj/y*, iMjfht to twelve, pale buff or butty white, U'O'J x 1-A7 (Kidgw.). 



This species is common in the interior and in Florida, but is rather 

 rare in the other Atlantic States. Its call-note is said to resemble that 

 pf the Mallard, " but is rather more shrill, and frequently repeated." 



136. Anaa penelope I. inn. KII>I-KAN \VIIM.KN. All. s. Crown 

 creamy bull'; throat Mm'kUli, rrst of head and neck rufou-brown ; upper 

 breant vinu.-c.ni.->, lo-r lir>!i>t nn<l belly white; ridtt and back finely marked 

 with wavy bluek nn-l w hite lint*. Ad. 9 . Head and throat deep ochraowoB- 

 huff, finely streaked un-l barn-d with black, darker above; upper breast and 



i.-h the -aim- color, but without blurk markings; lower breast and 



belly white; bai-k grayish brown, the frathen* with small ochraceous buffy 



bars; teniaU fiiM-mtH, Ixirdcred by deej. ochractovs bvffy; greater wing-cor- 



erU hrimi*h gray, usually whiter on the outer webs and tipped with black. 



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Kemartt. The female* of the Kun>i>ean and Aiiier'n-an XVidjreons l>ear a 

 general reemblanee to one another. Their .lixtirijfuishinjf eharacten are 

 mainly in the color of the head and throat, which are brown in the European 

 species, and in the color of the greater wing-coverts, which are whiter in the 

 American bird. I have seen a caged male in the summer in a plumage closely 

 ing that of the female. 1'robably a similar change of plumage occurs 

 in ur .1. nmtrieana. 



'-.- Northern parts of tin- old World; in North America breed* in 

 utiari Isla:. ;r occasionally ' n tnc extern United States, 



Washington. A. V., two r..-..pU. Long Island, A. V. 

 t butly white, 2-28 x 1-58. 



"The cnll-noto of the male is a shrill, whistling vhit-you, whence 

 Whew Duck ' and ' Whcwcr ' : but the female utters 

 Itth sexes, howerer, rise in silence" (Saunder>. 



137. Anaa amerlcana (imtl. HALLPATF. ; AMEKK v> \\II.OIOK. 

 Ad. 3 .Middle of the crown white or butty ; side* of th crown, from the eye 



