^ms HUB in us. 
RUDDY DUCK. 
[Plate LXXI — Fig. 6, Female. *] 
Peale’s Museum, IN'o. 2809. 
This is nearly of the same size as the male; the front, lores, 
and crown, deep blackish brown; bill as in the male, very 
broad at the extremity, and largely toothed on the sides, of the 
same rich blue; cheeks a dull cream; neck plain dull drab, sprin- 
kled about the auriculars with blackish; lower part of the neck 
and breast variegated with gray, ash, and reddish brown; the 
reddish dies off towards the belly, leaving this last of a dull 
white shaded with dusky ash; wings as in the male, tail brown; 
scapulars dusky brown thickly sprinkled with whitish, giving 
them a gray appearance; legs ash. 
A particular character of this species is its tapering sharp 
pointed tail, the feathers of which are very narrow; the body 
is short; the bill very nearly as broad as some of those called 
Shovellers; the lower mandible much narrower than the upper. 
This a young- male, and not a female. 
