duck. 37.9 



145.-GATTAIR DUCK. 



Anas Gattair, hid. Orn. ii. 877. Gm. Lin. i. 542. Fn. Arab. p. 3. 10. 

 Gattair Duck, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 357. 



BILL brown; plumage in general the same; wings black, 

 beneath white, margined with brown ; the quills from the fourth to 

 the twentieth white in the middle ; belly and tail coverts white ; 

 legs bluish ash-colour. 



Inhabits Alexandria, known there by the name of Gattair. 



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