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know what became of them. Latham says that 
are often kept in European menageries, and will ht®^ 
there.* 
The wood duck is nineteen indies in lengtii, and t]’, 
feet four inches in extent ; hill, red, margined 
black ; a spot of black lies between the nostrils, reacb>'’j 
an' 
nearly to the tip, which is also of the same colour, 
front, crown, and pendent crest, rich glossy hro' | 
green, ending in violet, elegantly marked with a li>'^ 
pure white running from the upper mandible over 
,!i' 
eye, and with another band of white proceedin; 
,r ((»’: 
behind the eye, both mingling their long pendent pb"*j. 
with the green and violet ones, producing a rich eftb^*, 
cheeks and sides of the upper neck, violet; chin, thr‘’j|, 
and collar round the neck, pure white, curving **P ,,i 
the form of a crescent nearly to the posterior p*'\; 
the eye ; the ivhite collar is hounded below n ith hl^li 
breast, dark violet brown, marked on the fore part 'f' 
minute triangular spots of n hite, increasing ip -jt 
until they spread into the white of the belly; each 
of the breast is bounded bv a large crescent of 
and that again by a broader one of deep black ; 
under the wings thickly and beautifnlly marked 
line undulating parallel lines of black on a gniu*''^ 
yellowish drab ; the flanks are ornamented with bi^ 
alternate semicircular bands of black and white ; *'*■ 
of the vent, rich light violet; tail-coverts, long, ‘ j, 
hair-like texture at the sides, over which theydes^'^.j 
and of a deep black, glossed with green ; hack, 
bronze, reflecting green ; scapulars, black ; tail, tap'^'^Vji 
dark glossy green above, below dusky ; primaries, U" jj; 
’ * • * • 
— ■ 7 7 • 
silvery hoary without, ti|)t with violet blue; secoudpjji 
greenish blue, tipt with white ; wing-coverts. 
VW, 
blue, tipt with black ; vent, dusky ; legs and 
ae'lowish red ; claws, strong and hooked. 
I^he above is as accurate a description as I caO 
of a very perfect specimen now before me. 
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* General Synopsis, iii, p. 547. 
