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stuffed clucks. Temmiuck states, in the fourth volume of his 

 " Manuel d'Ornithologie," that a species (Anas formosa), 

 which is tolerably common in Siberia, China, and Japan, re- 

 sembles our glocitans very much, and may prove hereafter 

 to be the same species in a different state of plumage. This 

 remark of Temminck may possibly lead to some investigation 

 of the subject. 



The measurements of this bird are twenty inches in length ; 

 the beak one inch ten lines from the forehead to the tip, two 

 inches two lines from the gape ; the wing, from the carpus to 

 the tip, nine inches ; the tarsus one inch four lines ; middle 

 toe one inch nine lines ; outer toe one inch eight lines ; inner 

 toe one inch two lines in length. 



The beak is lead colour ; eyes said to be dusky ; the legs 

 and feet orange-yellow. The plumage on the forehead and 

 top of the head is dusky, changing to brown and chestnut 

 from above the eyes to the nape, and further down the back 

 of the neck becoming deep blackish purple ; from the fore- 

 head, surrounding the base of the beak, extends the same 

 dusky colour, becoming lighter towards the eyes ; around the 

 eyes is a band of dark green, which runs round the ear- 

 coverts in a circle to the front of the neck ; on the lower part 

 of the cheeks is a patch of bright chestnut brown ; a beautiful 

 duck-green band begins above the dark green just over the 

 eye, and extends all along the sides of the neck. The entire 

 upper part of the breast is rich orange-brown, spotted with 

 crescent-shaped dusky spots, in the same manner as the com- 

 mon teal i the breast, belly, and vent are white, with fine 

 pearl grey undulating pencilings ; the back white, with the 

 same markings, but rather stronger; the tertials elongated, 

 and bordered with black, and tinged with straw-yellow ; the 

 wing cinereous-dusky ; the speculum bright green, with a 

 whitish band above, caused by the tips of the coverts being of 



