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horns projecting backwards; breast and neck ferruginous, beautifully spotted with dark brown; 

 quills, tail, and back dark brown, the latter slightly lunated with ferruginous; under tail coverts 

 deep black or brown, on the sides a patch of white ; wing coverts bright blue, lower ones marked 

 with a streak of white, then with one of green ; anterior tertiaries with the outer webs blue ; on the 

 inner side of the shaft a streak of ferruginous ; the remainder black. 



Female: length 15 inches; wing coverts as in the male; tertiaries and remainder brown 

 lunated with ferruginous ; crown darker. 



Querquedula discors Steph. hi Sh. Zool. vol. 12. 1 in. 



Lbin. Syst. A'at. 1. 205. 



Lath. In, I. Oi-n. >. 654. 



Sarcelle soucrourou Buff. PI. Enl. 966, mas. 



soucrourette 103, fern. 



White-faced Duel- Catesb. Carol. \. 100, mas. 



Blue-winged Teal 1 . 99, /<»'. 



Inhabits the American continent, from the 58th parallel to Guiana and the West Indies. 



CYANOPTERUS RAFFLESII. 



Cyan. — Castaneo'ferrugineus, speculo viridi. 



RAFFLES'S TEAL. 

 Deep reddish chesnut teal, with the speculum green. 



IN. IS. 



Lenyth 18 Tarsi lj; 



Bill 2 Middle toe ...... 2 



Deep reddish chesnut teal, with the crown and vent inclining to dark brown ; each of the 

 feathers on the back with black lunules ; tertiaries black and blue, with the shaft buff; wing 

 coverts light blue ; speculum metallic green ; quills and tail black. 



Anas Itafflesii, ICing Zool. Jourti. 4. .'»7. 



First brought home by Capt. King from Chili; since which time we have received specimens 

 from the same locality. Said by navigators to be exceedingly common on the west of South America. 



