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REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



lower throat deep pinkish with roundish spots of black; the crissum is cream-color, 

 anteriorly and medially velvety black; the rest of the lower surface is white, some- 

 times with a creamy tinge, the lower neck, the sides of the throat and body, with 

 the flanks, finely vermiculated with black. The bill is black, the eye brown, the 

 feet flesh color. The female is much less beautiful, a brownish streaked bird, very 

 similar to the same sex of the Blue-winged Teal. 



ON A DAY^S JOURNEY. 



