150 THE WHITE-WINGED WOOD-DUCK. 
are black, as described by Jerdon, or leaden grey, as figured by 
our artist. 
Of another specimen, a male (as I have good reason to 
believe) Blyth gave the following particulars :—“Length of wing, 
15; of bill to gape, 2°75; tarsi, 2°25. Bill yellow, with some 
lateral black specks ; the dertrum darker ; and the feet appear 
to have been orange.” 
But later he figured the bird in “ Contributions to Ornithology” 
from live examples, with both bill and feet dingy olive yellow. 
THE PLATE, with the sole exception of the colour of the legs 
and feet, is an admirable representation of my solitary speci- 
men—a female. But says Mr. Blyth :—“ The male is rather larger 
than the female, with fewer black spots, and consequently more 
white on the head and neck ; the back less mottled with dusky, 
and the underparts much darker than in the female, which last 
has a strong tinge of the hue of C. rutz/a,” z.e., of chestnut. And 
when he first described the bird, describing what must have 
been a male, he said :—“ General colour black above and below, 
a little glossy on the back. Head and neck white, with black 
feathers interspersed, forming more elongated spots than in 
Sarcidiornis melanonotus. Anterior half of the wing white 
externally,’ &c., showing that while there is a general resem- 
blance the male is a larger and much darker bird above and 
below than the female. 
It is to be noted that when later Blyth figured a male from 
a live specimen, he figured those portions of the head and wing 
that he had described as white, as pale dingy fulvous, so that 
probably, in some seasons or some birds, the white is not pure. 
