52 INDIAN ZOOLOGY. 



XIV. 



ANAS POIKILORHYNCHUS. 

 SPOTTED-BILLED DUCK. 



Anas Poikilorhyncha, Gmelln. Lin. i. 535. Forjier, Ind. Zool. 23. 

 Spotted-billed Duck, Latham, vi. 487. Index Ornith. ii. 850. 



Spotted-eilled ''T~^HE bill of this fpecies is black, tipt with yellow, 



and marked on each lide of the bafe with a red fpot : 



Description. a white line pafTes from thence to and beyond the eye. 

 The cheeks, and under fide of the neck and body, white, 

 more and more clouded from the chin to the vent, which 

 is totally black : the wings, back, and tail, are black j 

 each feather flightly edged with white ; fome of the ter- 

 tials wholly white : the fpeculum of a variable green, 

 bounded above and below with a narrow line of white. 



This is the common wild duck of Ceylon; and, if I 

 recolledt right, is not inferior in fize to the E?Jgli/h wild 

 duck. 



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