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FEMALE RUDDY DUCK. 

 [Plate LXXI Fig. 6.] 



Pjeaie's Museum, JVo. 2809. 



THIS 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 Sho- 

 vellers ; the lower mandible much narrower than the upper. 



