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HAWKSGURY 
IDS 
DeEscrIPTiON. 
IF NONTISPIEGE. 
PLACE» 
DS PC i. 
LENGTH twenty-two inches; fize of a Wigeon: bill ‘rather 
fhorter than in that bird, colour black: head and neck choco- 
Jate brown; at the back part of the nape, the feathers are much 
lengthened, fomewhat paler, and black at the ends: the upper part 
of the back and wing coverts brownilh afh colour, the laft palett: 
the lower part of the back, rump, tail, and middle of the belly, vent, 
under tail coverts, and quills, are black; but the fides of the breatt 
and belly under the wings are grey, crofied with minute unduiatc 4 
lines: fpeculum of the wing green, bounded on each fide with » 
but beneath the white is broader than above: the outer wels 01 ‘he 
fcapulars are black: but the moft diftinguifhing charaéter is, that 
the feathers of the breaft have the ends of a pale Silvery grey, and 
on €ich fide of the grey a fpot of blackith, giving that part an undu- 
lated appearance, fpotted with black: the wings when clofed do not 
reach quite to the end of the tail: the Ic 
The female differs in having the vent white inftead of black, and 
the green fpeculum on the wi a 
OS are Drown. 
maller and lets confpicuous, 
Inhabits New South Wales ; ivccuently rnet with about Lawkbury 
River, and now and then ob{crvec perched on trees. 
The male is now in my own collection, but among the drawings 
of Mr. Lambert, 1 ooferve fome variety, for the elongated feathers 
at the nape take up much more {pace in fome than in others: the 
head and neck too in fome are fine rufous, not unlike thofe parts in the 
Pochard : from the lower part of the breaft to the middle of the belly 
ath colour, beautifully marked with curved lines of brown: on the 
back four or five irregular large patches of black: legs black. 
