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passage throiigli miglity rush thickets, where the Swans 

 and Ducks were swimming about. The nests were placed 

 on the narrow banks, close to one another, and they 

 appeared as though they were swimming together among 

 the roots of the old rushes and reed stems, and they 

 were placed so thickly that they did not sink when 

 stood upon or walked over. The nest was very narrow 

 for the size of the bird." 



The adult male and female have on the head and 

 neck an abundant coiffure of long white feathers, slightly 

 twisted and silky; all the feathers of the head and 

 neck are narrow filaments more or less contorted; 

 those of the crop are straight, awl-shaped, shining, and 

 of a yellowish tinge; the abdomen greyish white; all 

 the upper parts, including the wings, are covered with 

 long white feathers, of which the shafts are blackish; 

 tail of silvery white, with black shafts; primaries 

 black, with their bases silvery white, running into grey 

 on the inner web, — the tips are also greyish; the 

 secondaries white, with their extremities silvery grey. 

 The eye is surrounded by a yellowish red naked patch, 

 of which the tint becomes bluish near the beak; 

 superior mandible grey, spotted with blue and red. 

 The guttural pouch orange, more or less varied with 

 yellowish grey, and on each side a yellowish grey 

 spot. Legs and feet ash-colour; iris clear yellow. 



The young have no crest; the pouch is greyish, more 

 or less tinged with yellowish; their plumage is grey, 

 mixed with bright brown. — (Temminck.) 



My figures of the bird and its egg are from speci- 

 mens kindly sent me by ]\Ir. Tristram. 



The bird has also been figured by Brandt, Animal. 

 E.ossic. Nov. Icon., fas. 1, pi. 6; Gould, B. of E., pi. 

 406; Naumann, Vogel. Deutsch., pi. 283. 



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