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ANATIN^. ANAS. 
One specimen procured in Louisiana. 
Brewer’s Duck, Anas Breweri, Aud. Oi’n. Biog. v. iv. p. 302. 
389. 4. Anas strepera, Linn. Gadwall Duck. — Violon. 
Plate CCCXLVIII. Male and Female. 
Tail shorty rounded, of sixteen pointed feathers. Male with the bill 
bluish-black, the feet dull orange-yellow, the webs dusky ; head light 
yellowish-grey, its upper part and nape much darker and barred with 
dusky, the rest dotted with the same ; lower part of neck, sides of body, 
fore part of back, and outer scapulars, undulated with dusky and yel- 
lowish-white, the bands much larger and semicircular on the fore part of 
the neck and breast ; the latter white ; abdomen faintly and minutely un- 
dulated with brownish-grey ; elongated scapulars brownish-grey, broad- 
ly margined with brownish-red ; hind part of back brownish-black, rump 
and upper and lower tail-coverts bluish-black ; anterior smaller wing- 
coverts light grey undulated with dusky, middle coverts deep chestnut- 
red ; primary coverts brownish -grey, outer secondary coverts darker 
and tinged with chestnut, the rest black, excepting the inner which are 
grey; primaries and inner elongated secondaries brownish-grey, of 
which colour also are the inner webs of the rest ; part of the outer webs, 
of five of the outer black, and their terminal margins, white, of which 
colour are the whole outer webs of the three next to the inner elon- 
gated quills ; tail brownish-grey, the feathers margined with paler. 
Female with the bill dusky along the ridge, upper part of head brown- 
ish-black, the feathers edged with light reddish-brown ; a streak over 
the eye, the cheeks, the upper part of the neck all round, light yel- 
lowish-red tinged with grey, and marked with small longitudinal 
dusky streaks, which are fainter on the throat, that part being greyish- 
white ; the rest of the neck, the sides, all the upper parts, and the 
lower rump-feathers brownish-black broadly margined with yellowish- 
red ; wing-coverts brownish-grey, edged with paler ; wing with the 
speculum fainter ; tail-feathers and their coverts dusky, laterally ob- 
liquely indented with pale brownish-red, and margined with reddish- 
white, 
Male, 21 1, 35. Female, 19i, 31. 
Breeds in Texas, and westward to the Columbia River, Fur Coun- 
tries, and sometimes in the States of New York, Massachusetts, and 
Maine. Rather common in autumn and spring in the middle Atlantic 
districts ; more so in the Southern and Western States. 
Gadwall, Anas strepera, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 120. 
Anas strepera, Bo nap. Syn. p. 383. 
Anas (Chauliodus) strepera, Gadwall, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 440. 
Gadwall or Grey, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 383. 
Gadwall Duck, Anas strepera, Aon. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 353. 
