FEMALE RUDDY DUCK. 57 
upper part of the neck is of a remarkable kind, being dusky 
olive at bottom, ending in hard bristly points of a silvery grey, 
very much resembling the hair of some kinds of seal-skins ; 
all these are thickly marked with transverse curving lines of 
deep brown; belly and vent, silver grey, thickly crossed with 
dusky olive; under tail-coverts, white ; legs and feet, asli- 
coloured. 
FEMALE RUDDY DUCK. 
PLATE LXXI.— Fic. 6. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 2809. 
FULIGULA RUBIDA.—BOoNAPARTE.— YOUNG. 
Tuts is nearly of the same size as the male; the front, lores, 
and crown, deep blackish brown; bill, as in the male, very 
broad at the extremity, and largely toothed on the sides, of 
the same rich blue; cheeks, a dull cream; neck, plain dull 
drab, sprinkled about the auriculars with blackish; lower 
part of the neck and breast, variegated with grey, ash, and 
reddish brown ; the reddish dies off towards the belly, leaving 
this last of a dull white, shaded with dusky ash ; wings, as in 
the male; tail, brown; scapulars, dusky brown, thickly sprinkled 
with whitish, giving them a grey appearance ; legs, ash. 
A particular character of this species is its tapering, sharp-_ 
pointed tail, the feathers of which are very narrow; the body 
is short ; the bill, very nearly as broad as some of those called 
shoveilers ; the lower mandible much narrower than the 
upper. 
Mr Ord has added a very elaborate description in his edition 
of this work, completing the history of this bird, which we 
have thought best to print, as showing many points of discus- 
sion ; we, however, consider the species established as above 
named. 
“Tn the first edition of this work, the author states that the 
two ducks of this species figured in the plate as male and 
