IN JERDON OR STRAY FEATHERS. 441 



945 bis.— Anser segetum, Gm. 



The bill is orange with the margins of both mandibles, the 

 basal half of the lower, and the ridge of the upper, Avith a 

 streak on each side as far as the nostrils, black ; the iris hazel ; 

 the feet dull orange yellow ; the claws dusky. 



The head and neck are greyish brown ; the foreneck and breast 

 gradually shaded with pale wood brown ; the latter fading into 

 greyish white; the hind part of the abdomen, and lower tail- 

 coverts, the sides of the rump and the upper tail-coverts, white ; 

 the feathers of the forepart of the back, the scapulars, and the 

 wing-coverts, are deep greyish brown, narrowly edged with 

 brownish white; those of the middle and hind part of the back 

 blackish brown ; the edge of the wing and the primary coverts 

 are ash grey ; the outer secondary coverts tinged with the same, 

 and terminally margined with greyish white ; the primaries 

 are blackish brown, the outer grey towards the base, all with 

 the shafts white; the secondary quills brownish black, the inner 

 dark brown, grey towards the base; the tail-feathers greyish 

 brown, tipped with white, the lateral almost entirely white. 

 The large feathers of the sides under the wings are greyish 

 brown, margined with pale brow r nish grey ; the lower wing-coverts 

 purplish brown. 



Length to end of tail, 31 inches ; extent of wings, 64 ; wing 

 from flexure, 18*5 ; tail, 5*5; bill along the ridge, 233; tar- 

 sus, 3*16. 



The female is similar to the male, but smaller. — Macgillhray , 

 Vol. IV., 597. 



971 S«s.— Clangula glaucion, Lin. 



Male. — The bill is black ; the iris yellow ; the feet orange 

 yellow, with the webs dusky ; the claws brownish-black ; the 

 head and upper part of the neck are glossy deep green when 

 seen in a light reflected at a small angle, but otherwise purple ; 

 the throat brownish black ; between the lateral basal sinus of 

 the upper mandible and the cheek is an ovate patch of white, 

 and in its greatest diameter and ten-twelfths across ; the lower 

 neck all round, the breast, forepart of the abdomen, sides, and. 

 lower tail-coverts white ; but the axillar feathers and lower 

 wing-coverts are blackish brown, and the edges of the posterior 

 elongated feathers on the sides black ; the back and the 

 inner and posterior scapulars are black ; the outer scapulars 

 white, with the margins black ; the tail is deep brown, tinged 



