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Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xsvii. p. 51, 1895 ; Lloyd, Timeliri (2) 

 xi. p. 8, 1897 ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 135, 1910 

 (Mora Passage), p. 357 (ALarv Eiver) ; Bi-abourne & Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 54, no. 499, 1912. ' 



'^Miwah" (C. .4. Lloyd); '^ Bisam or Turkish Duck" 

 (^Sclwmhurgh). 



Adult male. Back, %Yiugs, and tail dark glossy green ; axillaries, 

 upper and under wing-coverts pure white ; bastard-wing dark 

 green ; top of head, neck all roundj and entire underparts blackish 

 brown. Bill A'aried with blackish and pinkish white, caruncles 

 and naked parts on the head pinkish red ; feet black. 



Total length 758 mm., culmen 50, wing 383, tail 175^ 

 tarsus 63. 



The male described was collected on the Abary Biver, in 

 September 1907. 



Adult female. Similar in colour of plumage to the adult male, 

 but differs in the absence of the caruncles, and the naked space 

 round the eye is very much restricted. It is also smaller in size. 

 Wing 300 mm. 



Xestling in down. Sooty-brown above with a white tuft on each 

 side of the back and rump and a white bar across the wings ; 

 forehead and a line over the eye tawny-buflf; under surface 

 creamy-Avhite ; under wing and under tail-coverts white, as is also 

 the inner portion of the thighs. 



The nestling was collected on the Great Savannas. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Nest. "Decaying Eta palms are the nesting-places of the Wild 

 Muscovy Duck'' {C. A. Lloyd). 



Eggs. "Eight to ten in number^' (C A. Lloyd). 



liange in British Guiana. Savannas, Abary River, Berbice 

 River (^McConneJl collection) ; Cotinga River, Annai, Rupununi 

 Savannas {Brown) ; Yuruani (2700 ft.), Roraiuia [Whitely) ; 

 Mora passage, Abary River (Beehe). 



E.draliniital Range. South America generally to Argentina, 

 Central America. 



Habits. Schoniburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 7G3) that he only 

 found this species up to an altitude of 15('0 feet. It is met witli 

 at the mouths of the oceanic rivers and also on tjie Savanna rivers 

 and bogs. It is found in large flocks, singly, and in pairs. AVhcn 

 flocks of these birds are startled, tliey diNide, and fly in all 



