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Coloration and markings are as follows: Chin and throat, immaculate, pale 
pinkish buff; sides of head, and sides and front of neck, with ground color of 
the same, thickly streaked and speckled with dusky ; top of head dull black- 
ish, the feathers narrowly edged with pinkish buff. The dusky of the top of 
the head merges into drab gray along the median line of the back of the neck. 
The feathers of the back are mostly plain blackish, unmarked, but with these 
there are other feathers intermixed, apparently remnants of the disappearing 
immature plumage, of the same ground color, but with edgings and crescentic 
cross markings of pale pinkish buff. Ground color of upper breast buffy, the 
feathers with blackish centers and broad, blackish, encircling ellipses. On 
the lower breast, abdomen and crissum, the ground color becomes decidedly 
reddish, close to brick red, and the dusky markings are isolated spots. A spot 
is present on nearly every feather. Sides and flanks with larger blackish 
Fig. 44. From left to right: Cinnamon Teal, supposed hybrid, and Shov- 
eller; shows relative size and proportions of bill of each 
spots, and broad crescentic barring of dusky and buffy. In the under tail 
coverts new feathers are appearing, some black, others with fine vermicula- 
tions of white and black, or barred with black and buff. There is appearance 
as of a pure white area developing on either side of this tract. 
The wings of the male Blue-winged and the Cinnamon Teai appear to be 
alike, and both seem to be indistinguishable in color and markings from the 
Shoveller. The bird under consideration has the wing of the same general 
type, blue lesser coverts, with narrow white band, and metallic green specu- 
lum. Bill blackish, feet yellowish, as in the immature male Shoveller. The 
bird is undergoing molt over much of the body, there being many old feathers 
on the back and a feAv on the breast. The lateral rectrices are old and frayed, 
but the central pair are new, and still partly ensheathed. 
