ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 115 



greatly fatled wilh the metallic tint almost imperceptible, 

 tail whitish, slightly rcddish. 



This spccimcn was caught by Mr. B. Düse in the Valle 

 Morosina (Yen. Est., in the Province of Padua), in Ja- 

 nuary 1882, and I bought it from Mr. Gallo of Monsc- 

 lice. 



N°2826 of my Gollection. — Adult female. — Isabelline- 

 albino variety. 



On the underparths this specimen one can almost con- 

 sider as a bird of ordinary colour, only on the head and 

 generally on the edges of the feathers there is a great 

 deal of isabelline tint, the spots and the black portions 

 areso coloiired, butwith faded tints. Underparts reddish- 

 isabelline unicolour and lively on the throat and neck, 

 with small black spots as a half-colhir on the foreneck, 

 lively and shaded with buflish on the abdomen, with 

 brownish spots indistinctly marked on the centre of the fea- 

 thers, this towardsthe half of feathers is faded brown, so 

 that the tint is not unicolour ; wings normal in their de- 

 sign, but very faded ; the primaries especially whitish, 

 slightly reddish ; equally the metallic tint of speculum is 

 very faded ; tail in the outline and in the onter web is 

 whitish slightly isabelline, the inner webs present here 

 and there some not well marked traces of the ordinary 

 tint ; toes orange-yellow. 



This variety was certainly m fieri and there is no doubt 

 that it is a wild Duck. I bought this bird from Mr. Fulvio 

 Rossi of Cremona, who received it from the marshes of the 

 river Po, where it was killed on January the 21''' of this 

 year. 



This fine specimen is rather like to the precedent one, 

 only the anomaly is less advanced and it seems proceed 

 with the same rule ; one can say that both are two isa- 

 belline female Ducks with the tail and wings white, but 

 the former is more faded also in the wing-speculum, 

 while the latter is almost normal in bis lower parts and 

 the speculum shown again a light metallic hue. 



