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ANAS ANGUSTIEOSTEIS. 



(MARBLED DUCK.) 



Anas angustirostris, Menetr. Cat. Eais. p. 58 (1832). 



Anas marmorata, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 544 (1840). 



Fuligula marmorata, Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 373 (1837). 



Querquedula angustirostris, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Am. p. 57 (1838). 



Lqfila marmorata, Eyton, Mongr. Anat. p. 114 (1838). 



Marmonetta angustirostris, Eeich. Syst. Av. 



Marmaronetta angustirostris, Bonap. C. E. xliii. p. 650 (1856). 



Chaulelasmus angustirostris, Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 84 (1871). 



Ruhilla (Andalucia), Spanish ; Garganella marmorata, Italian ; Chihil, Moorish Arabic. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 493; Bonap. Faun, d'ltal. Ucc. pi. 47; Gould, B. of Eur. v. 

 pi. 373; Bree, B. of Eur. p. 156. 



8 supra cinerascens, dorsi plumis et scapularibus late fulvescenti-albo terminatis, his quasi ocellatis : pileo 

 summo cinerascente, plumis brunneo minute meclialiter notatis, regione prse- et postoculari brunneo 

 concolori : facie laterali et collo undique cum gutture toto albicantibus, plumis anguste brunneo mar- 

 ginatis : tectricibus alarum pallide cinerascentibus : remigibus cinerascenti-brunneis versus apicem 

 saturatioribus, primariis extiis cano lavatis, secundariis minoribus pallidioribus et versus apicem 

 lactescentibus, dorsalibus cinerascentibus dorso concoloribus : rectricibus cinerascenti-brunneis, ad 

 apicem late albicantibus, exterioribus multo pallidioribus: subtus albicans, pectore superiore magis 

 distincte, abdomine imo et subcaudalibus obscuriiis brunneo vel cineraceo transnotatis : hypochondriis 

 cinerascentibus conspicue albo ocellatis : subalaribus albis, exterioribus cinerascentibus, pennis axil- 

 laribus pure albis : rostro et pedibus saturate plumbeis : hide brunnea. 



2 mari similis. 



Adult Male. Upper parts dull brown, with a faint grey tinge, mottled and marbled with light greyish- 

 brown, each feather having a round greyish-brown spot at the tip ; the feathers on the upper part of 

 the back grey at the base, then dark brown, and tipped again with buff-grey ; head greyish brown, each 

 feather having a dark brown bar ; region round the eye dark brown ; quills ashy grey on the outer web 

 and brown on the inner web ; secondaries pale creamy-brown, the inner ones being much darker ; upper 

 wing-coverts grey, with a brownish tinge ; upper tail-coverts the same as the back ; tail ashy brown, 

 broadly tipped with creamy buff; whole underparts greyish white, the sides of the head, throat, and 

 neck with fine dark stripes, the breast being barred with dark brown ; flanks barred and marbled with 

 dark greyish brown ; under wing-coverts dirty white ; under tail-coverts pale buff, imperceptibly barred 

 with brown; beak and legs blackish lead-colour; iris brown. Total length 14 - 6 inches, culmen l - 8, 

 wing 7'9, tarsus 1'2, 



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