126 WHITE-HEADED DUCK. 



I am very glad to have the opportunity of figuring a male bird 

 from Halloula, sent me by Canon Tristram. 



This specimen, killed on the 15th. of April, 1856, and therefore 

 in the breeding plumage, has the top of the head and occiput black, 

 ■with the forehead, nape, cheeks, and base of under mandible white; 

 neck and throat black; back, scapularies, upper wing coverts, and 

 flanks reddish brown mottled with grey and white; the sides of the 

 chest and upper tail coverts deep red brown; tail black; lesser wing 

 coverts dull brown, edged with minute black and white spots; 

 primaries and secondaries very short, and brown; chest deep red 

 brown, spotted with black; crop and abdomen dirty glossy (Grebe-like) 

 white, covered thickly with black spots, more or less distinct. The 

 short and singularly inflated beak, the very small nail, and the legs 

 and feet black. 



My flgure of the egg is from my own collection, in which I have 

 a long series taken in South Russia. 



It has also been figured by Bechstein, Tasschenb. Deut., vol. ii, 

 p. 444, No. 29; Naumann, Vogel Nachtr., pi. 40, fig. 79, (male and 

 female;) Stor. Degli Uccelli, pi. 577; Savigny, Egypte, pi. 10, f. 2; 

 Gould, pi. 



