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rest of the head bright green, continued in streaks down the neck ; 

 breast light ferruginous brown, spotted with black; hind part of the 

 neck and back dark brown, waved with black ; wing coverts ash ; 

 the lower streaked with rust; scapulars cinereous; quills the same, 

 inclining to brown ; secondaries fine green, ending in a shade of 

 black, edged with white ; tail coverts inclining to brown ; secon- 

 daries fine green, ending in a shade of deep changeable green ; 

 tail of twelve feathers, the two middle black, the others brown, edged 

 with white; belly dusky, finely granulated ; legs small, yellow; 

 webs dusky. 



Inhabits the eastern parts of Siberia ; has been met with along 

 the Lena, and about the Lake Baikal ; has a singular note, somewhat 

 like clucking. Taken in a decoy near Sir G. Turner's, at Ambro- 

 seden, Bucks, in 1771. 



94 —MEMBRANACEOUS DUCK. 



Anas membranacea, Ind. Orn. Sup- p. lxix. 



fasciata, Nat. Misc. pi. 697. 



New-Holland Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 359. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill almost three, and black, and of 

 a singular construction, being greatly enlarged at the end, and 

 rounded ; appearing, when viewed above, not unlike that of the 

 Spoonbill, and is occasioned by a thin, cartilaginous membrane; the 

 sides beneath greatly pectinated, with the addition of a conspicuous 

 black nail at the end; the nostrils quite at the base; irides blue ; 

 the general colour of the plumage rufous brown above, inclining to 

 ash on the crown, and the nape nearly black, and a little elongated 

 into a crest ; the eye placed in a dark space, almost black ; behind 

 the eye a longitudinal, rose-coloured spot, about half an inch in 

 length ; the neck and under parts of the body dusky white, marked 

 with numerous, transverse, dusky bands ; sides under the wings 

 fasciated with black ; towards the vent, and sides under the wings, 

 nearly black; legs bluish black. 



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