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fresh, scapulars warmer sepia edged buff-brown or cinnamon-brown, 

 lower scapulars edged blackish -plumbeous ; upper tail-coverts 

 sepia or blackish -plumbeous edged cinnamon- brown ; upper- 

 breast, sides of body, flanks, vent and under tail-coverts sepia or 

 drab-brown, tinged buff-brown at tips of feathers ; flanks and under 

 tail-coverts in some edged cinnamon- brown ; feathers of rest of 

 breast and belly whitish more or less mottled, tipped or barred hair- 

 brown or drab-brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts sepia, 

 some coverts sometimes tipped white ; tail black-brown or sepia ; 

 primaries, secondaries and bastard- wing black-brown with blackish- 

 plumbeous gloss, inner webs paler shading to dusky-brown ; wing- 

 coverts black-brown shading to blackish-plumbeous at tip, one or 

 two greater coverts occasionally with brownish -white spot towards 

 tip. This plumage is acquired by complete moult July to Dec. 



The Harlequin-Duck. Adult female. 



Adult female. Summer. — The body-feathers appear to be more 

 or less completely moulted, but not tail or wings, April and May. 

 Very like eclipse but upper-parts lacking sepia tone and more ap- 

 proaching clove-brown, feathers narrowly edged plumbeous olive - 

 grey. 



Nestling. — Crown to below eye and centre of nape and whole 

 of upper-parts, sides of body and uropygial tuft black-brown, long 

 down-filaments tinged buff-brown ; small white patch from front of 

 eye to fore -head, another on lores and one below eye ; small 

 brownish-white spot on wing and another on side of back behind 

 wing, both somewhat indistinct ; white spot on either side of centre 

 of back above thigh not always well-defined ; rest of under-parts 

 white tinged greyish on throat and sides of body. 



Juvenile. Male and female. — Like adult female eclipse but 

 upper-parts lighter, more olive-brown, wing-coverts blackish olive- 

 brown, instead of black-brown shading to blackish-plumbeous. 

 Nape and scapulars olive-brown ; upper tail-coverts olive-brown 

 shading to buff-brown ; crown and mantle sepia, feathers shading 

 to olive-brown or buff-brown at tip ; back and rump blackish olive- 

 brown ; lores dusky-brown ; patch above eye, another below eye 



