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TALMIPEDES. 

 Family ANATID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Anas. ( Linncvus.) 



MARBLED DUCK. 



Anas marmorata. 



Anas marmorata, Temminck; Man., If, 1840. 



" angustirostris, Meneteies; Celt., p. 58, No. 205. 



Dajila marmorata, Eyton; Anat., p. 114, No. 4. 



Q^uerquedula angustirostris, Bonaparte; Birds, 1838. 



Canard Marhle, Of the Feench. 



Schmalschnablige Krikente, Of the Germans, 



Sjjecijlc Characters. — Beak straiglit. General plumage light 

 brown, darker on the back, and marbled -witb wbite. No speculum 

 on the wings. Length fourteen inches and a half; carpus to tip 

 eight inches; tarsus one inch and a half; middle toe and claw 

 two inches; beak from forehead one inch and four fifths; beak 

 from rictus two inches and one tenth. 



This Duck was first figured I believe by Mr. Gould, 

 in his "Birds of Europe," part 9, having previously, 

 according to Schlegel, been described by Edward 

 Menetries, in his "Catalogue Raisonne," published at 

 St. Petersburg in 1832, as Anas angustirostris. This 

 name, according to modern rules, ought probably to 

 stand, but the straightness of a Duck's beak is, to 



