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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Order ANSERIFORMES. 

 Family ANATID.E. 



Tlie members of this family, which var^^ considerably in size, 

 are distingiii>hed chit fly by the shape of their bills. They are 

 distributed over the greater part of the known world. There aie 

 about two liundred species, of which fifty-one occur in South 

 America, and eight of these are represented in British Guiana. 



Genus CAIRINA Flem. 



Cairina Fleming, Phil, of Zoul. ii. p. 260, 1S22. Type G. moscliata 

 (Linn.). 



This genus is characterized by having the lores naked ; the 

 forehead and base of the l»ill ornamented with caruncles ; and an 

 elevated crest of* recoiled feathers on the fore part of the head. 



Fig. 48. — To show the elevated crest and the caruncles on the 

 forehead and sides of the face. 



117. Cairina moscliata. 

 Muscovy Dl'ck. 



Anas moschafa Linn. Syst. Xat. 10th ed. i. p. 124, 17-38 (Brazil) ; Brown, 

 Canoe and Camp Life, p. lOo (Annai).p. 137 (Kupununi Savannas), 

 p. 271 (Cotinga lliver), 1876. 



Carina tnoschaia Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Giiian. iii. p. 763, 1848. 



Cairina moscliata Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 173 (Yiu'uani lliver, 2700 ft., 

 Roraima) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) ii. p. 363, 1888 (Abary lliver) ; 



