42 WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 



ward the middle of the ungines, the frontal angles pro- 

 longed and pointed. 



Head of moderate size . Neck, rather long and slender. 

 Body, full and depressed. Wings, rather small. Feet, 

 very short, strong, placed rather far back ; tarsus, very 

 short, considerably depressed. 



Plumage, dense, soft, blended, generally glossed. 

 Feathers of the middle of the head and upper part of 

 the hind neck, very narrow, elongated, and uncurved ; 

 of the rest of the head and upper part of the neck very 

 short ; of the back and lower parts in general broad 

 and rounded, excepting on the shoulder before the 

 wings, where they are enlarged, very broad and abrupt. 

 Wings, of moderate length, narrow and acute. Tail of 

 moderate length, rather broad, much rounded, of six- 

 teen round feathers. 



Upper mandible, bright red at the base, yellowish at 

 the sides ; the intermediate space along the ridge and 

 the ungines, black, as in the lower mandible and its 

 membranes. Iris and edges of eyelids, bright red. Feet 

 dull orange ; claws black ; upper part of the head and 

 space between the bill and the eye, deep green and 

 highly glossed ; below the latter space a patch of dark 

 purple and a larger one of the same color, but lighter 

 behind the eye ; side of the neck, its hind part under 

 the crest and the middle all round very dark purple. 

 Throat, for more than three inches, pure white, with a 

 process on each side a little beyond the eye, and an- 

 other nearly half way down the throat. Sides of the 

 neck and its lower part anteriorly, reddish purple, each 

 feather over the latter with a triangular white tip. 

 Middle of the neck behind, back, and rump, very dark 

 reddish brown ; the latter deeper and tinged with 



