WHITE FACED TREE DUCK 



DENDROCYGNA VIDUATA (Linne) 



. (Plate 11) 



Synonymy 

 Anas viduata Linne, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 205, 1766. 

 Dendrocygna viduata Eyton, Monograph on the Anatidse, p. 110, 1838. 

 Dcndrocycna viduata Reichenow, Vogel d. Zool. Garten, p. 58, 1882. 



Vernacular Names 



English: 



White-faced Tree Duck 

 White-masked Duck 

 Brazilian Tree Duck 

 White-faced Visi-visi 

 Widow Duck 



French: 



Canard (percheur) a face blanche 

 Canard du Maragnon 

 Dendrocygne veuf 



German: 



Maskenente 

 Wittwenente 

 Nonnenente 

 Weissstirnige Baumente 



Spanish: 



Pato quiriri 

 Pato cara blanca 



Portuguese: 



Marreca-apahy 

 Marreca do Para 

 Arere, Erere, or Irere 

 Chega e vira 



Indians of Guiana: 



Wawing or Vis-sisi 



Indians of Trinidad: 

 Ouikiki bouriki 



Dutch: 



Braziliaansche Boomende 



Matabele: 

 Idada 



Madagascar: 

 Tsiriry 



Angola: 



Imbanteque 



Arabic: 



Agagarajh 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male: Fore part of the head, chin, and spot in the middle of throat white; back of head and 

 upper part of the neck black, lower neck chestnut; back and scapulars brown, the feathers of the 

 upper part of the back with narrow fulvous bars, the feathers of the middle part of the back and 

 the scapulars margined with fulvous; in the center of the back a chestnut patch; lower back, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, black; center of the underparts, vent, and under tail-coverts, black; sides and 

 flanks whitish buff, barred with black; lesser wing-coverts chestnut, remainder of wing-coverts slaty 

 black, the median ones and the tertials with an olive tinge; quills, brown-black; tail, black. 



