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species ; the latter more particularly, as it is apparently a young bird. 

 The bill however differs in shape, the speculum is narrower, and the 

 white streak in the wing broader than in the last species; while the legs 

 are black, not red. The colours of the under wing coverts will be seen 

 also to differ. The front and sides of the head and neck are speckled 

 with black. The abdomen is marked with reddish brown. The under 

 wing coverts are black with white feathers in the centre. The secondary 

 quill feathers forming the speculum are of a brilliant golden purple on 

 their outside edge at the base, with a black /asc/a succeeding the purple, 

 and a white apex. The bill is black above, beneath yellow ; the legs are 

 black. The length of the biid is 24 inches; of the bill, 2|; of the wing, 

 from the carpal joint to the extremity of the second quill feather, 10| ; of 

 the tail, 6; of the tarsics, 1^. 



57, 58. Another species, approaching to our Teal, not uncom- 

 mon, but of which I find no preceding notice. 



Anas creccoides. 



./?n. pallide brunneo-griseus, fusco sparsus notatusque; dorso imo, 

 plilisquefuscis, his apice rufo; specula nigra, fidvo marginato. 



The head and neck of this bird are finely marked with fuscous dots, 

 those of the neck lying nearly in transverse lines, thus forming several 

 undulating yrt5c<«. The feathers of the upper part of the back are of a 

 brownish gray, and are marked in the centre by oval fuscou^ spots. The 

 scapular feathers are similarly marked by larger central black stria:, which 

 in some lights are of a brilliant green. The lower part of the back is of 

 an uniform fuscous colour. The upper wing coverts are fuscous; the 

 apices of the lowest range of feathers being terminated with rufous, 

 which colour forms a nsirrow fascia across the wing immediately over the 

 speculum. The external secondary quill feathers are black on their out- 

 side margin, and are terminated with light buft"; the internal are fuscous 

 on their outside web with a shade of deep green, and slightly margined 

 with buff, the feather immediately following the black ones being of a 

 brilliant green on the outside web. The under wing coverts are dark 

 fuscous, with some white feathers in the centre. The breast and middle 

 abdomen are whitish, the feathers of the former being strongly marked 

 M'ith round black spots in the centre, those of the latter being more 



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