MUSCOVY DUCK 



CAIRINA MO SCH AT A (Llnne) 



(Plate 3) 



Synonymy 

 Anas moschata Linne, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 124, 1758. 

 Cairina moschata Fleming, Philosophy of Zool., vol. 2, p. 260, 1822. 

 Hyonetta moschata Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Tentamen, p. 146, 1872. 



Vernacular Names 

 English: Pato criollo 



Muscovy Duck Pato almizclado 



Musky or Musk Duck Pato perulero 



French: Portuguese: 



Canard musque Pato bravo 



Canard de Barbarie Pato do rnatto 



German' Pato almizcarado 



Moschusente Indian: 

 Bisarnente Cotua — (Peru) 



Tiirkische Ente Quayaiz — (Colombia) 



Dutch: ^H- British Guiana 



Muskuseend Oumeh J 



Bizameend Arabic: 



Spanish: Khonkhel 



Pato real 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male: Head, crest and neck brown, except a patch of bare black skin, surrounded by pinkish- 

 red caruncles, which extends from back of the eye to the bill. Mantle dark greenish brown. Scapu- 

 lars and tertials, upper tail-coverts, and tail metallic green or purplish. Whole lower surface brown. 

 Upper and under wing-coverts white like the axillars. Secondaries metallic purple, primaries blackish. 



Bill varied with blackish and pinkish- white ; hides brown-yellow. Legs and feet black (Salvadori). 



Note: The iris is sometimes described as dirty straw-color, sometimes as seal-brown, the bill 

 black, spotted with light ashy blue. Skin of lores and base of bill black (M.C.Z. specimens). 



Length 900 mm.; wing 400; tarsus 65; bill 75. Weight 8.8 to 11.0 pounds (4 to 5 kilograms). 



Adult Female: Similar to the male, but much smaller and with no naked skin or caruncles on the 

 head. 



Irides brown. Bill, blackish, with a pale bluish band. Legs and feet black. 



Weight 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms). 



