150 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
The following description is abridged from Salvadori’s 
catalogue :— 
Male.—General colour reddish ; the feathers brown in the 
middle, edged with reddish ; speculum glossy- green, bounded 
each side by two velvety-black bands ; under-wing coverts white ; 
bill black; iris sienna-brown; feet fleshy colour (Sclater). 
Total length about 21 inches. 
Female.—Apparently similar to the male. 
Young.—Has a redder tinge, almost rusty, on the edges 
of the feathers of the lower parts. 
MIRROR DUCK. 
(Anas specularis ). 
This beautiful bird, with its richly-coloured coppery-red 
wing-bar changing to green, and conspicuous white cheeks and 
neck, has only recently been imported alive into this country, 
specimens having been received by the Zoological Society, in 
May, 188r. 
It inhabits the Magellan Straits and the southern parts of 
Chili, and is, so far as we yet know, an exclusively Western 
species. According to Phillippi and Landbeck it is common 
from the Straits of Magellan as far north as Valdivia, but is rare 
in the Central Provinces of Chili. 
I give the following abridged description from Salvadori’s 
“ Catalogue of Birds.” 
Male.—Head and neck brown, but with a large spot on 
the sides of the face, chin, and middle of the throat, white, 
spreading on the sides of the neck; back glossy brown-black, 
with the edges of the feathers pale brown; lower back uniform 
glossy brown black, changing into olive-brown on the upper tail 
coverts; under parts pale rufescent; sides and flanks with 
