246 duck. 



lines; wing coverts white; below them a broad speculum of green ; 

 quills, tail, and legs, black. This description taken from the draw- 

 ings of Sir John Anstruther ; and in a second drawing, some little 

 difference is seen ; the general colour rufous ; the feathers all over 

 margined with brown; quills and tail black; bill and legs dusky; the 

 rest as in the first described. That figured by Brown, had the head 

 and neck pale grey ; cheeks white ; back, breast, and belly, bright 

 ferruginous, marked with dark semicircular lines ; vent orange, crossed 

 with a black band ; the rest of the plumage as before-mentioned. 

 Mr. Brown describes one as a female, without any white on the 

 cheeks, and the colours in general less bright. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and the coast of Coromandel. 



In India it is called Chuchwa; by the inhabitants Bramany 

 Duck ; is known to the Dutch, at the Cape of Good Hope, by the 

 name of Bergen ten. 



26.— MOUNTAIN GOOSE. 



Anas montana, hid. Orn. ii. 841. Gm. Lin. i. 510. 



Hill or Mountain Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 458. Kolb. Cap. ii. 139. Barrow, Trav. p. 264. 



THIS is said to be bigger than a Tame Goose. The wing 

 feathers, and those of the head, of a bright red shining green. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, chiefly on the hills, and feeds 

 on grass and herbs. We may suspect this to be no other than the 

 Grey-headed Goose in one of its stages to perfection, as Mr. Barrow 

 says the Mountain Duck answers to the Anas cana, but that there is 

 a mistake in giving the white head to the male which is found only 

 in the female. This author adds, that they are seen at the Cape in 

 great numbers, about Sea Cow River. 



