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wing-coverts and the axillaries are pure 

 white. The upper back, the scapulars 

 and the lesser wing-coverts are blackish, 

 each feather with a pale fulvous margin. 

 The lower back, the rump and the upper 

 tail-coverts are black ; the tail-feathers 

 black, narrowly margined with fulvous. 

 The greater wing-coverts are brown, ter- 

 minated with white and broadly tipped 

 with black. The primaries are blackish, 

 the inner webs slightly paler than the 

 outer. The outer secondaries have the 

 inner webs brown, the outer brilliant 

 metallic green or greenish blue, according 

 to the light in which the wing is viewed, 

 terminated by a broad black band and 

 tipped with a narrower white band. The 

 inner secondaries are dark brown, the 

 first two longer ones, next the specu- 

 lum, with the whole outer web pure 

 white. 



The young duckling, on assuming its 

 first feathered plumage, resembles the 

 adult, but has the spots on the lower 

 plumage less distinct. 



Male : length about 24 ; wing 1 1 ; tail 

 rather more than 4. The female is rather 

 smaller. The bill is black, the base of 

 the upper mandible orange, the tips of both 

 mandibles varying from yellow to orange ; 



