duck. 323 



86.— JAVAN DUCK. 



Anas Javanica, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 199. 



LENGTH seventeen inches. Part of the wings and base of the 

 tail are chestnut ; the back, and inferior part of the wings brownish 

 black ; neck dull hoary fulvous ; chin paler ; belly vinaceous 

 chestnut ; top of the head, and tip of the tail dusky ; vent and 

 hypochondres whitish ; feathers of the back with fulvous margins. 



A.— Anas Javanica, Var. B. 



This varies in having the interscapulary feathers, and those of 

 the breast and belly, variegated with black fasciae ; those of the 

 hypochondres white, barred with black ; vent white : it is also near 

 two inches longer than the other. 



These birds inhabit Java, the former by the name of Melivis, 

 the latter by that of Mel ivis-Kem bang. 



87— WIGEON. 



Anas Penelope, Ind. Orn. ii. 860. Lin. i. 202. Fn, suec. No. 124. G?n. Lin. i. 527. 



Brim. No. 72, 73. Muller, No. 121. Frisch, t. 164. 169. Kram. 342. Georgi, 



166. Raii, 146. A. 3, Will. 288. pi. 72. Bor. iii. p. 13. Fn. Arag. 75. Fn. 



Helv. Cet. uc. Sard. 326. Sepp, iii. t. 109, 110. Gtnel. reise, iv. p. 148. Tern. 



Man. 542. Id. Ed. 2d. 841. 

 Anas fistularis, Bris. vi. 391. t. 35. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 464. Klein, Av. 132. 7. Id. 



Ov. 35. t. 21. f. 2. Gerin. v. t. 585, 586. 

 Anas alia, Querquedula major, Gerin. v. t. 596. Id. 597.— young. 

 Die Pfeifente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 648. Id. Ed.2d. iv. 1109. Bes. Vog. Kurl. No. SO, 



81. Schr. de Berl. Nat. vii. 458. Id. Besch. d. Berl. Nat. iv. 601. t. 18. f. 5.— 



the trachea. Naturf, xii. 136. 

 Canard Siffleur, Buf. ix. 169. pi. 10, 11. PI. ml. 825.— male. 

 ' '■■'■ 'i Queue pointue, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 429. 



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