duck. 377 



140— SPARRMANS DUCK. 



Anas Spai'rmanni, Ind. Orn. ii. 876. 

 — Alandica, Mus. Carls, fasc. iii. t. 60. 

 Sparrman's Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 357. 



LENGTH twenty-three inches. Bill black ; top of the head 

 ferruginous, spotted with black ; sides of it, nape, chin, and throat, 

 cinereous, with brown spots ; lower part of the throat spotted fer- 

 ruginous and black ; between the shoulders, scapulars, and some of 

 contiguous feathers black, with pale ferruginous margins, marked in 

 the middle, towards the tip, with two reddish white bands, meeting 

 at an angle ; upper and under wing coverts sooty brown, with 

 whitish margins ; the first prime quill dusky white, with a brown 

 tip ; the rest pale brown, with the outer margins and tips blackish 

 brown ; rump ferruginous and white, spotted with black ; vent 

 elongated, white ; tail ferruginous, crossed with five or six bands of 

 black ; legs black. 



Inhabits Sweden : found in Aland, towards Abo : called Sjo-And. 



141— GMELIN'S DUCK. 



Anas Gmelini, Ind. Om. ii. 876. 



Anas lurida, Gm. Lin. i. 531. S. G. Gmel. It. i. p. 70. 2. 182. t. 16. 



Gmelin's Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 356. 



THIS is larger and stouter than the Teal ; at the corners of the 

 mouth a spot of white ; plumage in general black ; head chestnut ; 

 breast crossed with reddish lines ; belly whitish, with dusky spots ; 

 sides and vent white ; the first four outer quills are black, but 

 within cinereous ; from the fifth to the tenth wholly cinereous, to 

 the nineteenth white, to the twentieth half white, half dusky on the 



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