RED-HEADED DUCK. 
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Ijossy reddish chestnut, endings in a broad space of 
‘*‘ck tliat covers the upper part of the breast, and 
Pfeads round to the back ; hack, scapulars, and tertials, 
^ 'he, faintly inai'ked nith an infinite miinher of trans- 
ei'se n aving lines or points, as if done with a pencil ; 
ij|."ole lo\» er |)arts of the breast, also the belly, white, 
jil^utly pencilhnl in the same manner, scarcely iiercep- 
on the breast, ))rctty thick toivards the vent; 
‘.»k'-covcrts, gray, with numerous spe(d<:s of blackish ; 
'l‘''maries and secondai'ies, ))ale slate, two or three of 
h latter of which nearest the body are finely edged 
. deep velvety black, the former dusky at the tips; 
very short, jniinted, consisting of fourteen feathers 
ho.ary brown ; vent and tail-coverts, black ; lining 
I the wing, white ; legs and feet, very pale ash, the 
htor three inches in width, a circiuustance uhich 
’^'*hly accounts for its great powers of swimming. 
^ The female is somewhat less than the male, and 
,^*'S:hs three pounds and three quarters; the crown is 
a^hish hronm ; cheelvs and throat, of a pale drab ; neck, 
brown ; breast, as far as the black extezids on the 
dull hi’own, skirted in places with pzihs drab ; 
ltf.n ’ vt bite, crossed with fine wavizig lines ; 
of the same dzill white, peizcilled like the hack ; 
/“gs, feet, aud hill, zts in the rnzile; tail-coverts, dzzsky; 
I't, white, wavz-d with brown. 
Lj^he windpipe of the male has a large flattish co 
(i^“)Tiuth, the i-idge of which is covered witli i. ...... 
jj*nsparcnt raemhrzizie; Azhei-e the trachea enters this, 
I! vez-y naiTow, hut izninediately above swells to 
"tzH**'" dizimeter. The intestines ai-e wide, 
** 'tteasure five feet in length. 
concave 
a thin 
276. JNAS FKRI^A. — ^LINXaSlZS AND WILSON. 
RED-HEADED DUCK. 
PLATE LXX. FIG. VI. EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEU3I. 
ff is a common associate of the canvass-back, 
fiReiiting the same places, and feeding on the stems 
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