ANAS FLAVIROSTRIS.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate XCVI. (Male.) 



A. suporne brunneus, plumis albo-marginatis ; inferne rufo-albus lunulis bninneis varicgatus ; alarum 

 speculo viridi-splendento antice, postice intcrneque nigro, marginato ; rostro superne flavo, macule 

 oblongo nigro-brunneo e fronte usque ad apicem ; pedibus rubro-brunneis. 



LoNGlTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caudce 19 unc. G lin. ; caudae 4 uiic. 



Anas flavirostris, Smith, Eyton's Monograph on the Anatida', p. 141, Lond. 183S. 



Colour. — ^The upper surface of the head and the lores deep umber-brown 

 freckled with short and fine longitudinal dull white lines arising from each 

 feather being narrowly edged and tipped with that colour ; sides of head and 

 neck dull broccoli-brown, finely streaked with dirty white ; interscapulars, 

 scapulars, back, and upper tail coverts intermediate between umber-brown 

 and brownish red, each feather broadly margined with dirty white ; breast, 

 belly, and under tail coverts mottled brown and dirty white. The brown is 

 nearly of the same tint as that of the back, and is the predominating colour 

 of each feather, the white existing only at the edges and in the form of an 

 angular and incomplete bar about midway between the base and apex ot 

 each. Shoulder feathers and secondary quill coverts greyish brown, a part of 

 the former narrowly edged with pale broccoli-brown, the other part with dull 

 white ; the secondary quill coverts are tipped with velvet black, behind which 

 each has a narrow bar of white. Primary quill coverts reddish brown, faintly 

 edged exteriorly and tipped with greyish white. Primary quill feathers light 

 brownish red, tinted with grey, the outer vanes darkest and narrowly edged 

 with yellowish white ; shafts deep brownish red. Secondary quill feathers 

 brownish red, broadly tipped with white, and behind the white each has a 

 broad bar of velvet black, the outer vanes from near the quills to the last men- 

 tioned bar are a brilliant shining duck green. The innermost of the secondary 

 and the outermost of the tertiary quill feathers have the outer vanes velvet- 

 black, so that three sides of the wing-speculum are bounded with that colour; 

 the rest of the tertiaries are of the same colour as the back and are narrowly 

 edged with dirty white. Tail intermediate between umber-brown and brownish 



