CLANGULA LEUCONOTA.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate CVII. Male. 
C. capite magno, alto, subcristata; capitis lateribus postice, cervicis lateribus, guttereque superne 
pallide flavo-rufis; dorso alisque brunneo-rubris, plumis auranteo-rubro-fasciatis ; pectore abdo- 
mineque subrufis bruneo-rubro-fasciatis ; rostri lateribus ad basin viridi flavis, viridi-nigro-vermi- 
culatis ; tarsis pedibnsque viridi-nigris. 
ClanguI/A Leuconota, Smith. Catalogue of South African Museum, 1837. 
Thalassornis Leuconota. Eyton’s Monog. of Anatidee, page 168, 1838. 
Colour.— Front and upper surface of head umber-brown, pencilled 
sparingly with dirty sienna-yellow ; hind head and centre of neck superiorly 
variegated with umber-brown and sienna-yellow, lower or hinder part of neck 
sienna-yellow, spotted with umber-brown; a large white blotch on each 
side of base of upper mandible ; feathers in front of eye umber-brown, 
slightly freckled with sienna-yellow; the sides of the head and of the 
throat superiorly sienna-yellow, the former towards the upper surface of 
the head variegated with small umber-brown spots, and low on the neck 
tinged with pale Dutch-orange ; the sides and back of the neck inferiorly, 
as also the interscapulars umber-brown, barred and narrowly tipped with 
dirty white ; the lower portion of the neck anteriorly, the breast, belly, and 
under tail coverts sienna-yellow, barred with umber-brown, the latter 
scarcely visible on the breast of aged individuals. Back pure white; upper 
tail coverts umber -brown, narrowly tipped with white ; shoulders, the small 
feathers external to quill coverts, and tertiary quill feathers umber-brown, 
barred and tipped with white, or with a colour intermediate between reddish- 
orange and chestnut- browm. Primary quill coverts intermediate between 
broccoli and chestnut-brown ; secondary coverts umber-brown, tipped with 
pale sienna-yellow; primary quill feathers a colour between chestnut and 
wood-brown; secondary quill feathers brownish red, diluted with broccoli- 
brown ; tertiaries umber-brown, and more or less tipped with light chestnut 
brown. Tail brownish-red, the vanes partially edged with sienna-yellow, 
and more or less variegated with irregular partial bars of the same colour. 
Eyes dark brown. Bill blackish green towards base, variegated with 
yellowish green in the form of small spots or reticulations. Legs and toes 
dirty livid bluish black ; webs and nails black. 
