100 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus CAIRINA Fleming. 1 (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. Sab. Tropical America, from Paraguay and southern Brazil to Mexico; 



Louisiana ? 



C. moschata (Linn.). Muscovy Duck. 2 



Genus NETTA Kaup. (Page 85, pi. 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. Eggs 2.19 X 1.68, pale olive-buff. 

 Sab. Southern and eastern Europe, together with portions of Africa and Asia; 

 accidental in eastern United States (Fulton Market, New York City). 



145. N. rufina (Pall^). Rufous-crested Duck. 



1 Cairina " Flemings, Phil, of Zool. 1822, 260." Type, Anas moschata Linn. 



2 Anas moschata Linn., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 124. Cairina moschata " Flem., Philos. Zool. 1822 260." 



