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U, S. p. E, E. EXP. AND SUEVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENEEAL EEPOET. 



DENDEOCYGNA AUTUMNALIS, E y t o n . 



Long-legged Duck. 



Ana^ atUumnalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1766, 205. 

 Dendronessa avlurrnialis, Wagler, leis, 1 832, 282. 



Dendroajgna autumnalis, EYTON,Mon Anat 1838 —Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. V, May, 1851, 117. 

 Sp Ch.— Head grayish. Top of head, lower part of neck, jngulum, interscapulars, and scapulars, reddish chocolate. A 

 narrow line down the nape, and the body generally, with wings and tail, black. Crissum and tibia white, spotted with black. 

 A large white patch on the wings, oompoeed of the greater wing coverts and the basal half of nearly all the primaries and 

 secondaries. Bill and feet red. 

 Length, about 24 inches; wing, 10; tarsus, 2.26; commiBSure, 2.20. 

 Mob. — ^Valley of Eio Grande, Texas. Also in South America and West Indies ? 



Sides of head and neck gray, passing on the lower surface into whitish. Forehead grayish, 

 passing on the crown into reddish brown, and on the nape and back of the neck into dark 

 brown and black. Lower half of neck and anterior portion of body all round, including jugu- 

 lum and fore back, dull chocolate red, lighter on the breast ; the scapulars, interscapulars, and 

 tertials, with the tips somewhat similar, but the body of the feather more olive brown. Lower 

 part of back, rump, tail, the belly and sides, the entire inner surface of wing and axillars, 

 with the quills, sooty brown, almost black, dullest on the belly ; the crissum and tibia white, 

 spotted with, sooty. Lesser coverts yellowish olive, the greater with the outer webs of 

 secondaries and primaries and spurious feathers, white, showing as a conspicuous patch. 

 The first and second primaries, and outer spurious quills without, white. Bill yellowish or 

 red, the nail black. Feet like the bill. 



In a specimen apparently of the same species, but more mature, the top of the head from the 

 bill is dull brownish red, and the back and scapulars are of the same color, the narrow black 

 line down the nape very distinct. The jugulum and lower part of neck all round is, however, 

 more yellowish, separating broadly the chestnut or chocolate red of the throat from that of the 

 back. The belly is pure black ; the tibia black, with only a few whitish specks. 



List of specimens. 



DENDROCYGNA FULVA, B u r m . 



Anm fulva, GMELiN.Syst. Nat. 1, 1788,530.— Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 863.— Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, 



1819, 204.— BuHM. Thiere Brasiliens, II, 1856, 435. 

 "Anas virgaia, Max. Eeiee nach. Bras. I, 322." 

 "Anat sinuata, Lioht." Bon. 

 "Anm bicolor, Vieillot," Bon. 

 "Anas collaria, Merrem," Bon. 

 Pendope mexicana, Br. Orn. VI, 1760, 390. 



