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mature bird at Yarmouth on the first of 
August, 1816.* 
Bnffon observes that " the female take 
the whole management of the incubation ; 
the males seem to leave them and associate 
together during that time, but in Autumn 
they return to their families". 
Temminck says that £C the young males 
before moulting are like the females, some 
of them are often met with at the beg inning: 
of the winter which have the throat white, 
or spotted with black ; the bay and green 
upon the head indistinct and interspersed 
with white and ferruginous dots; many 
brown feathers mingled with those which 
constitute the full plumage of their sex ; 
the upper band which borders the specu- 
lum upon the wing, is often at this period 
shaded with ferruginous and there are small 
black spots upon the white feathers of the 
belly. The females and young of this 
species may readily be distinguished from 
those of the preceeding by the speculum 
* Montagu informs us that u it is said to breed in 
the mosses about Carlisle" and that he was informed it 
lias been known to breed in confinement. 
