MARBLED BUCK. 119 



PALMIPEDES. 

 Family ANATID^. {Bonajmrte.) 



Genus Anas. {Linnmus.^ 



MARBLED DUCK. 



Anas angustirostris. 



Anas angustirostris, Menetries ; Cat., p. 58, No. 205. 



" marmorata, Temminck; Man., iv, 1840. 



DafiU marmorata, Eyton; Anat., p. 114, No. 4. 



Qiierqiudula angustirostris, Bonaparte; Birds, 1838. 



Canard Marble, Of the French. 



SchmalschndUige Krikeiite, Of the Germans. 



Shihib, Of the Moors (Favier). 



Ruhilla, Of the Andalucans (Irby). 



Specific Characters. — Beak strait. General plumage light brown, darker 

 on the back, and marbled with white. No speculum on the wings. 

 Length fourteen inches and a half; carpus to tip eight inches; tarsus one 

 inch and a half; middle toe and claw two inches; beak from forehead 

 one inch and four fifths; beak from rictus two inches and one tenth. 



This Duck was first figured I believe by Mr. Gould, in his 

 "Birds of Europe," part 9, having previously, according to Schlegel, 

 been described by Edward Menetries, in his "Catalogue Raisonne," 

 published at St. Petersburgh -in 18o2, as Anas angustirostris. This 

 name, according to modern rules, ought to stand, although I preferred 

 the use of Temminck's name in the first edition. 



The Marbled Duck inhabits the south of Europe, the north of 

 Asia, and Africa. In Europe it has been captured in Sardinia, 

 according to M. Cantraine, which, however, is the only Mediterranean 

 locality in which he found it, and there it was very rare. This 



