100 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus CAIRINA Ftemina.’ (Page 87.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Head, neck, and lower parts, uniform glossy brownish black ; 
upper parts brilliant metallic blackish green, glossed with purple anteriorly and on 
rump; wing-coverts, above and below, entirely pure white; caruncles along sides 
of forehead, etc., bright pinkish red, or rose-red, in life; bill varied with blackish 
and pinkish white or light rose-color; length nearly 3 feet, wing about 16.00, 
tail 9.00, tarsus 2.00, or more. Adult female : Entirely brownish black, except some 
of the upper greater wing-coverts, which are white; upper parts glossed with 
metallic green and purple; length about 2 feet, wing 12.50, tail 5.50, tarsus 
2.00. Hab. Tropical America, from Paraguay and southern Brazil to Mexico; 
Louisiana? 
C. moschata (Linn.). Muscovy Duck.? 
Genus NETTA Kavp. (Page 83, pl. XXIII, fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Head and upper neck vinaceous-rufous, the full, soft, “ bushy” 
crest paler, and more ochraceous; lower neck, stripe along hind-neck, most of the 
lower parts, and rump, uniform brownish black ; back and scapulars light brown, 
with a broad transverse bar, or patch, on outer portion of scapular region ; specu- 
lum chiefly white; anterior border and under side of wing, and a very large patch 
on flanks, white; bill and feet bright vermilion-red in life; length about 21.00, 
wing 10.20, culmen 2.00. Adult female: Crest much smaller than in male; upper 
half of head and stripe down hind-neck, light hair-brown; rest of head and neck, 
with lower parts in general, pale grayish, the chest and sides more brownish; 
rump dark brownish; no white scapular patch, and white anterior border to wing 
indistinct; bill dusky or brownish, the tip paler (pinkish in life); wing 9.90, cul- 
men 1.90. Immature male: Much like the adult female, but crest still less devel- 
oped, and more reddish; under part and sides of head interspersed with cinnamon- 
colored feathers; breast, etc., mixed with black feathers; white scapular patch 
distinctly indicated. Downy young: Upper parts dull olive-gray, lower parts and 
scapular spot pale yellowish gray; lores with two olive-gray stripes, one ascending 
over eye, and bordering a yellowish gray superciliary stripe, the other passing 
below the eye, across cheeks and ear-coverts. ygs 2.19 x 1.68, pale olive-buff. 
Hab. Southern and eastern Europe, together with portions of Africa and Asia; 
accidental in eastern United States (Fulton Market, New York City). 
145, N. rufina (Pat..). Rufous-crested Duck. 
1 Cairina “ Firemte, Phil. of Zool. 1822, 260.” Type, Anas moschata Linn. 
2 Anas moschata Linn., 8. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 124. Cacrina moschata “ Fiem., Philos. Zool. 1822, 260.” 
