FEiMALE RUDDY DUCK. 
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The ruddy duck is fifteen inches and a half in Icug-th, 
tweuty-t Avo inches in extent ; the bill is broad at 
tip, the under mandible much narrower, and both 
pit rich liolit blue ; nostrils, small, placed in the middle 
I the bill; cheeks and chin, white; front, crown, and 
part of the neck, down nearly to the back, black ; 
of the neck, wliole back, scajrulars, flanks, and 
^1-eoverts, deep reddish brown, the (iolonr of bright 
ttah, 
;, plain pale drab, darkest at the 
•og;iny ; wings, | , ...v, 
f^titts ; tail, black, greatly tapering, containing eighteen 
^i'ow pointed feathers ; tlie plumage of the breast and 
jPper jiart of the neck is of a remarkable kind, being 
l^'tslcy olive at bottom, ending in hard bristly points of 
Jsilvery gray, very much resembling the hair of some 
, “ds of seal skins ; all these are thickly marked with 
hai ■ 
silv 
'“'isverse curving lines of deej) brown ; belly and vent, 
h’er gray, thickly crossed with dusky olive ; under 
^'i-coverts, white ; legs and feet, ash coloured. 
273, ANAS RUBlDUSf WILSON. — FEMALE B.UDDT DUCK. 
WILSON, PLATE LXKI. FIG, VI. 
1 Tins is nearly of the same size as the male ; the front, 
and deep hlaekish brown ; bill, as in the 
Pliile, very broad at the extremity, and largely toothed 
"" the sides, of the same rich blue ; cheeks, a dull 
; neck, plain dull drab, sprinkled about the 
?'’''iculars with blackish; lower part of the neck and 
jl'east, variegated with gray, ash, and reddish brown ; 
' reddish dies off towards the belly, leaving this last 
dull white, shaded with dusky ash ; wings, as in 
male ; tail, brown ; scapulars, dusky brown, thickly 
^"'inkled with whitish, giving them a gray appearance ; 
V,ash. 
, ^ particular character of this species is its tapering 
*harp pointed tail, the feathers of which are very 
l®*'row; the body is short; the bill, very nearly as 
^oad as some of those called shovellers ; the lower 
‘‘‘audible much narrower than the upper. 
