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sides ; this red is irregularly continued, reaching as far as the 

 speculum, when the wings are closed. The lower part of the 

 breast, belly, and vent are white, the flanks rayed with 

 grey ; upper and under tail-coverts black. The entire back, 

 from the neck to the upper tail-coverts, rayed with grey on a 

 white ground. The tertials are black, edged with white ; 

 the wing-coverts white ; the speculum is green, with a broad 

 border of black above and below ; the quill-feathers dusky ; 

 the tail lighter dusky, and tinged with grey 



The adult in summer differs very much from what we ever 

 meet with here, and must be described thus : — the beak, legs, 

 and eyes, the same as before stated. The head and neck 

 spotted all over with black ; the breast and sides of the body 

 reddish-brown, with darker bars and lines ; the back and sca- 

 pulars mottled and varied with feathers of reddish-brown and 

 dusky marked in large bars, and others with fine black and 

 white undulating lines ; under tail-coverts white, with reddish- 

 brown bars. 



The female is like the common duck, of a sooty-brown, 

 spotted with dusky-black ; but at all times to be known by 

 the blue beak and legs, set off with black like the male. 



The egg figured 252 is that of the Wigeon. 



