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black passes down over the back, quite to the tail ; breast and sides 

 pale and ferruginous, deepening into chestnut in the middle, growing 

 still deeper as it passes towards the vent, where it is black ; the 

 second quills are six inches long, and curve downwards, partly 

 white and partly black, the colour divided obliquely on each 

 feather ; the scapulars are also long, pointed, and curve elegantly 

 downwards over the greater coverts, as in the Garganey ; each has 

 the web next the body very little broader than the shaft itself, and 

 both of them white; the other very broad, and black ; legs black. 



In that of Pallas the head is said to be somewhat crested, the 

 green spot before the eye not uniting across the head, and is broader 

 than in the above bird ; the black spot at the angles of the green 

 band not mentioned, otherwise one description might suffice. 



The female has the whole plumage mixed brown and ferruginous, 

 somewhat in the manner of the Woodcock ; the quills all straight 

 and dusky ; some of the secondaries have white tips, making a spot 

 on the wing; and some of the lower coverts are also tipped with 

 white, forming a large spot of white forwards ; legs black. 



This is a rare and elegant species. Found about the sea coasts 

 of Kamtschatka, and breeds among the inaccessible rocks : flies in 

 flocks. A pair of them were shot at one time, on a river in Ostro- 

 gothia, in Sweden ; frequents also the western side of America. 

 Mr. Pennant observes, that the female has much resemblance to the 

 Red Duck, or Ferruginous Duck of the Br. Zool. which, is said to 

 have been killed in England, in Lincolnshire, but later observations 

 have not furnished us with a similar instance. 



1 05. —PINK-HEADED DUCK. 



Anas caryophyllacea, Ind. Orn. ii. 866. 

 Pink-headed Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. 276. pi. 119. 



SIZE of the Black-billed Whistling Duck ; length twenty or 

 twenty-one inches. Bill two inches and a half long, a trifle bent at 



