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black, and tipped with white; tertials pale chestimt-hrown, 

 the outer webs darkest in colour ; front and sides of the 

 neck below the white ring rich dark chestnut, each feather 

 at the commencement of winter edged with white ; breast, 

 belly, vent, and flanks, greyish-white, the sides before and 

 under the wings marked with delicate grey-lines ; under 

 tail-coverts velvet black ; legs, toes, and their membranes 

 orange yellow. The whole length twenty-four inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing eleven 

 inches and a half; the second quill-feather the longest 

 in the wing. 



The female has the beak greenish-black, towards the 

 end light yellow-brown, the nail black ; irides brown ; 

 cheeks, head, and neck, pale brown, each feather streaked 

 with black in the middle ; the scapulars, and the whole of 

 the back of the same two colours, but prettily varied, 

 some of the feathers black in the middle and on the 

 margin, with a light brown band between the two dark 

 colours ; tail-feathers the same ; small wing-coverts ash- 

 brown ; the large coverts white towards the end and 

 tipped with velvet black ; primaries uniform dark brown ; 

 the secondaries the same on the inner web, outer webs 

 forming a purple speculum, ending in a band of black, and 

 tipped with white ; tertiaries dark brown ; chin and throat 

 pale brown ; lower part of the neck richer reddish-brown, 

 varied with dark brown ; breast, belly, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts pale brown, slightly varied with darker brown, 

 which occupies a portion of the centre of each feather; legs 

 and toes orange, the interdigital membranes darker. 



The females are smaller than males, and measure but 

 twenty-two inches in length; the wing ten inches and a 

 quarter; the first and second quill-feathers very nearly 

 equal. 



