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MARECA CASTANEA. 



Mar. Mas. — Castaneus atro maculato ; speculoque viridi. 



Mar. Fern. — Brunnea cinerea, marginibus pennarum suturatioribus, 



CASTANEOUS WIDGEON. 



Mas. castaneous spotted with black ; the wing spot green. 

 Fem. cinereous brown, with the edges of the feathers lighter. 



IN. IX. IN. 



Length Yl\ Bill 1 3-5ths Tarsi 1| 



Male : under parts, neck, and upper part of the back castaneous, spotted with black ; lower 

 part of the back black, each feather edged with castaneous ; wing coverts brown, slightly tinged 

 with greenish ; quills brown ; secondary coverts tipped with white ; tail and under coverts black 

 glossed with green and purplish ; wing spot bright green ; head black glossed with green ; bill, 

 legs, and feet black. 



Fem. : rather smaller than the male ; light brownish grey, spotted with darker ; wing spot 

 green, edged anteriorly with white, and posteriorly with black ; bill and legs as in the male. 



Mareca castanea nobis. 



Inhabits New Holland. The first specimens Ave observed were in the collection of the Natural 

 History and Anticpiarian Society of Shrewsbury, presented (together with many other birds from 

 the same country) by Major Wakeman. 



AIA GALERICULATA. 



Ai. Mas. — Vei-tice occipiteque viridibiu ; fascia lata supra-occulari alba ; tectricibua tertiu ad apicea 



expandentibus. 

 -/'. Fem. — Faciis duabus alis. 



MANDARIN DUCK. 



Male, with the crown and occipital creel green ; a broad white band over the eye ; tertiariea 

 expanded at the tip. and prominent. 



Fem. with two white bare on the wing 



