DUCK. 3fJl 



121. —SUMMER DUCK. 



Anns Sponsa, Ind. Orn. ii. 871. Lin. i. 207. Cm. Lin. i. 539. Bor. iii. p. 20. 10. 



Bartr. Trav. p. 293. Amer. Orn. viii. 97. pi. 70. f. 3. Shaw's Zoo/, pi. 1037. 



Frank/. Narr. App. p. 702. 

 Anas sestiva, Bris. vi. 351. t. 32. f.. 2. Ztf. Svo. ii. 455. Gerin. v. t. 579. 

 Yztactzon Yahauhqui, Rati, 170. Will. 299. Klein, 134. 21. 

 Beau Canard huppe, J3u/. ix. 245. P/. en/. 980, 981. 

 American Wood Duck, Brown, Jam. 481. 

 Summer Duck, Gew. &'//». vi. 546. C'a<. Car. i. pi. 97. £(/w. pi. 101. Arct. Zool. ii. 



No. 493. 0>». Diet. Supp. pi. in ditto, f. v. — trachea. 



S!ZE of a Wigeon ; length from seventeen to nineteen inches, 

 breadth twenty-nine. Bill white, the upper mandible red at the 

 base, tip and ridge black ; irides hazel; eyelids crimson ; the hind- 

 head much crested; the feathers very long, and hang down the neck; 

 the head and crest are glossy green, appearing purple in some lights; 

 from the nostrils a white line passes on each side, over the eye, to 

 the hind head ; and from the back of the eye a second, tending to 

 the same part ; the hindhead, beneath the crest, black; chin and 

 throat white, forming a slender curve upwards round the jaw, ending 

 in a point at the back of the eye ; below this is a second curve, tend- 

 ing towards the nape ; the neck below the crest, and breast, of a 

 ruddy vinaceous colour, inclining to brown behind ; the breast 

 marked with triangular spots of white ; from thence, as far as the 

 vent, white ; the feathers which fall over the wings barred black and 

 white; back glossy brown; scapulars glossed with blue green; 

 second quills with blue; sides of the body finely barred with dusky 

 and cream-colour ; over the thighs marked with black and white ; 

 tail pointed, black; sides of the vent purplish chestnut; legs orange. 



The female is smaller. The feathers round the base of the bill 

 white; round the eyes the same, passing in a streak behind, and 

 finishing in a point ; chin and throat white ; fore part of the neck 

 and breast brown, spotted as in the male, but much less distinct ; 



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