BREWER’S DUCK. 
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part of the neck deep glossy green ; but there is an elongated patch of pale 
reddish-yellow, extending from the base of the bill over the cheek to two 
inches and a quarter behind the eye, and meeting that of the other side on 
the chin ; the space immediately over and behind the eye light dull purple. 
A narrow ring of pale yellowish-red on the middle of the neck; the lower 
part of the neck dull brownish-red, the feathers with a transverse band of 
dusky, and edged with paler. The upper parts are dull greyish-brown, 
transversely undulated with dusky; the smaller wing-coverts without undu- 
lations, but each feather with a dusky bar behind another of light dull 
yellow; first row of smaller covers tipped with black; primaries and their 
coverts, light brownish-grey; some of the outer secondaries similar, the next 
five or six duck-green, the next light grey, with a dusky patch toward the 
end. The rump and upper tail-coverts black, as are the parts under the tail, 
excepting two longitudinal white bands; tail-feathers light brownish-grey, 
edged with whitish. All the rest of the lower parts are greyish-white, 
tinged with yellow, beautifully undulated with dusky lines, on the middle 
of the breast these lines less numerous, and each feather with a reddish-grey 
central streak. 
Length to end of tail 23 inches, to end of claws 24; extent of wings 39 ; 
bill along the ridge 2§, along the edge of lower mandible 2£; tarsus II, 
middle toe 2, its claw hind toe §, its claw j. Weight 2 lbs. 9 oz. 
I have named this Duck after my friend Thomas M. Brewer of Boston, 
as a mark of the estimation in which I hold him as an accomplished orni- 
thologist. 
Brewer’s Duck, Anas Breweri, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 302. 
Male, 23, 39. 
One specimen procured in Louisiana. 
