SPOTTED TREE DUCK 



DENDROCYGNA GUTTULATA Wallace 



(Plate 14) 



Synonymy 

 Anas guttata Forster (MS.). 



Dendrocygna guttulata Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 36. 

 Dendrocygna guttata Schlegel, Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 85, 1866. 

 Dendrocygna arcuata Rosenberg {nee Cuvier), Reis naar Zuidoostereil., p. 54, 1867. 

 Dendrocygna vagans Rosenberg {nee Eyton), Malay Archipelago, p. 373, 1878-79. 



Vernacular Names 



English: 



Kei: 



White-spotted Tree Duck 



Larlelat 



Wandering Tree Duck 



Am: 



Ternate: 



Bursil 



Gaboera 



Talaut: 



Goram: 



Taminga 



Bebeka 



Celebes: 





Manu Lantang 





Bebetalaga 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male and Female: Head above, brown of burnt-umber tint, a stripe down hind neck darker 

 brown; upper parts dark brown, feathers broadly edged with pale brown; remiges dark brown; lower 

 back and rump blackish with pale tips; upper tail -coverts black, the basal ones conspicuously barred 

 or spotted with white; tail blackish, paler at tip; eyebrow, face and sides of upper neck grayish brown, 

 mottled with whitish; upper throat whiter, tinged with rufous; loreal stripe passing through the eye, 

 dark brown; lower neck and under parts yellowish rufous, becoming almost white on the abdomen, 

 the bases of the feathers of the neck and breast white, marked with brown, so as to enclose white spots, 

 these spots larger and very conspicuous on the sides of body and on flanks; under tail-coverts barred 

 black and white; wing below dark brown, some of the wing-coverts and ends of the axillaries barred 

 with white (Meyer and Wiglesworth, 1898). 



Bill black; tarsi and feet ashy, more or less tinged with reddish; hides brown or chestnut 

 (d'Albertis, fide Salvadori, 1895). 



Wing 212-223 mm.; tarsus 47-51; oilmen 41^16. 



Immature: The young in first plumage have the white spots on the feathers of the flanks whitish, 

 broadly edged with black, and the feathers of the sides and breast with the white spots drawn out into 

 irregular mesial streaks (Meyer and Wiglesworth, 1898). 



