16 BIRDS. PALMIPEDES. 55. Anas. 



a longitudinal dusky bar down the sides : /capillars white, long, 

 pointed: wings black chefnut : 4 middle tail-feathers black, 2 of 

 {hem very long, the rest white : legs dull red. 



284. A. firruginea. Bill pale blue, dilated : head, neck, 

 and body above reddish-brown : throat, breast, and 

 belly paler. 



Ferruginous Duck. Br. Zeol. ii. n. 285. t. 99. 



Weight 20 ounces : legs pale blue, with black webs. 



285. A. Clangula. Bill back : body varied black and 

 white : head tumid, black with a green and violet 

 gloss : at the corners of the mouth a white spot. 



Golden eye. Walcott. 69. Albin t. 96. Will. Angl. t. 73, 

 Length 18 inches : extent 2 feet 6 : weight 2 pounds. 

 Iris bright yellow : back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black j 

 fcapulars black and white : wings with 2 'white patches : quills 

 black, fecondaries white: breast and belly white: tail blacks legs 

 orange. Female, head rusty-brown, neck w T ith a grey ring, breast 

 mixed dusky and grey, legs yellowish with-dusky webs. 



286. A. Glaucion. Bill yellowish-brown : body blackish 

 with white lines : head dull ferruginous : neck with a 

 white collar, and a grey one beneath it : wings with a 

 white line. 



Morillon. Wale. t. 70 Brit. Zool. ii. p. 588. n. 277* 



Less than the last, of which it may be only the young bird. 

 Iris golden: back and coverts dusky with a few white lines: 



greater coverts dusky with a few large white fpots .• primary quills 



black, fecondaries white : breaft and belly white : sides black : tail 



dusky : legs yellow. 



287. A. Fuligula. Bill blue-grey tipt with black : head 

 with a pendent crest : body black : belly and wing- 

 spot white. 



Tufted Duck. Albin i. t. 95. Hayes t. 26. Walcot t. 78. 



Length 17 inches : extent 2 feet 4 : weight 25 ounces. 



Bill broad : iris yellow: head and crest with a violet and green 

 glofs : fcapulars with minute grey fpecks, vent black : tail black : 

 legs dusky, with black webs; Female, without the crest, and the 

 plumage inclining to brown. 



288.. A. Nyraca. Bill bluish tipt with black: head, 

 throat, breast, and flanks chesnut : back and wings 

 blackish-olive : belly whitish :■■ vent and wing-spot 

 white : rump black. 



Olive tufted Duck. Sowcrby Brit. Mifcel. \.p. 43. t. 21. 



Length 16 inches. Iris whitish hazel : belly varied whitish and 

 brown: head hardly crefted. Female, without crest, back inclining 

 to rufous, dirty reddish where the male is chefnut, belly clouded. 



289. A. Querquedula. Bill black: over the eyes a broad 

 white stripe : breast with semicircular brown and. 

 black lines : wing-spot green. 



Garganey. Br. Zool... t. ioj. Wale. t. 75. Donovan t. 21. 



Length 17 inches : extent 28 : weight 



Crown brawn with dusky lines: chin black: cheeks and upper- 

 part of the neck purplish, with white longitudinal lines: belly 

 j dirty-white, with a few dusky streaks: iving-coverts grey, the 

 larger-ones tipt with white : fcapnlars black white and grey : wing' 

 spot white above and beneath : tail dusky : legs lead-colour. 



Female, without the green (pot on the win^s, above brown with 

 dusky streaks. 



