green; chest rich chestnut glossed with reddish purple, and marked 
with triangular white spots; sides of breast crossed with a broad pure 
white bar and a broad deep black one immediately behind it; sides and 
flanks delicately waved with black on a buff or pale fulvous ground, the 
outermost feathers beautifully ornamented with broad crescentic bars 
of pure white and velvety black; belly white; bill (in life) beautifully 
varied with jet-black, milk-white, lilac, red, orange, and yellow; length 
about 19.00-20.50, wing 9.00-9.50, culmen 1.40. Adult Jemale: Feathers 
round base of bill, around eye (and extending thence back to the occi- 
put), chin, and whole throat, white; rest of head leaden gray, the crown 
and slightly developed occipital crest glossed with greenish; chest 
brownish, spotted with buff or whitish; remaining lower parts chiefly 
white; upper parts chiefly grayish brown, richly glossed on wings, 
scapulars, ete., with reddish purple and other metallic tints; length 
about 17.00-19.50. Downy young: Above dark hair-brown, darker, or 
approaching clove-brown, on top of head and tail; a dingy whitish bar 
along posterior edge of arm-wing, and a roundish spot of same on each 
side of rump; lores, superciliary stripe, and sides of head generally, 
bright sulphury buff, crossed by a broad stripe of blackish brown, from 
eye to occiput ; lower parts dingy white, the sides more brownish, crossed 
on flanks by a whitish bar. Nest in holes in trees, often at a great height 
from the ground. Eggs 2.08 x 1.58, pale buff, or buffy white. Hab. 
Whole of temperate North America; Cuba; accidental in Europe. 
144. A. sponsa (Linn.). Wood Duck, 
a. Feathering at base of bill extending farther forward above than below, and 
forming a straight line from the side of the forehead to the lower basal cor- 
ner of the mandible; depth of bill at base not greater than its width; 
feathers on side of neck (in adult male) much elongated, forming a conspicu- 
ous ruff of soft narrow feathers; innermost tertial with the shaft much bent, 
giving the outer web of falcate form, the inner (upper) web widened into an 
excessively broad sail-like ornament ; tail much less than half as long as wing, 
nearly even, and shorter than the lower coverts. (Subgenus Dendronessa 
SwAInson.") 
Adult male: Smaller than A. sponsa ; similar in general style of coloration, 
but middle upper portion of crest chestnut, lengthened feathers of sides 
of neck tawny chestnut, streaked with ochraceous, whole loral region 
buff, etc. Hab. Eastern Asia (domesticated extensively in China and 
Japan). 
A. galericulata (Linn.). Mandarin Duck? 
1 Dendronessa Swatns., F. B. A. ii. 1831, 497. Type, Anas galericulata Linn, 
2 Anas galericulata Liny., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 128. Aix galericulata “ Eyron, Mon. Anat. 1838.” 
