388 ANATID.E. 



forwards ; belly, vent and under tail-coverts white ; sides 

 waved with yellowish-brown ; legs and feet dull red. 

 The whole length of the bird nineteen inches; the wing, 

 from the point to the end of the longest quill-feather seven 

 inches and a half. 



The female is rather smaller in size; the head, neck, 

 back, and wings dark brown ; top of the head reddish- 

 brown, the feathers elongated; chin white; neck in front 

 pale brown, the edges of the feathers lighter in colour ; 

 under parts white; bill, irides, and feet, as in the males. 

 The young birds resemble the female for the first year ; 

 during the second the black and white about the head 

 appears in young males ; in the third spring they are 

 complete. 



