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PALMIPEDES. 

 Family Al^ATIBJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Anas. fLinnwus.J 



MARBLED DUCK. 



Alias marmorata. 



Anas marmorata, Temminck; Man., iy, 1840. 



ancjustirostris, Meneteies; Cat., p. 58, No. 205. 



Dajila marmorata, Eyton; Anat., p. 114, No. 4. 



Querquedida angustirostris, Bonaparte; Birds, 1838. 



Canard Marhle, Of the FeejSCH. 



Schmalschndhlige Krikente, Of the Geemans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak straiglit. General plumage liglit 

 brown, darker on tlie back, and marbled with white. No speculum 

 on the wings. Length fourteen inches and a half; carpus to tip 

 eight inches; tarsus one inch and a half; middle toe and claw 

 two inches; beak from forehead one inch and four fifths; beak 

 from rictus two inches and one tenth. 



This Duck was first figured I believe by Mr. Gould, 

 in his "Birds of Europe," part 9, having previously, 

 according to Schlegel, been described by Edward 

 Menetries, in his "Catalogue Raisonne," published at 

 St. Petersburg in 183,^, as Anas angttstirostris. This 

 name, according to modern rules, ought probably to 

 stand, but the straightness of a Duck's beak is, to 



