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Title: A monograph on the anatidae, or duck tribe
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Eyton, T. C. (Thomas Campbell), 1809-1880 Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printer of plates Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Scharf, George, 1788-1860, ill
Subjects: Anatidae
Publisher: London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman ... and Eddowes, Shrewsbury
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the fore neck, white; wing coverts fuscous; speculum brightgreen, anterior to which there is a stripe of pale red-fuscous; posteriorly a narrow one of black,then a broad one of pale reddish fuscous; tail and upper tail coverts pale reddish; bill and legsfuscous, the former with an orange patch on each side, Female : similar to the male, but much smaller ; and below brownish fuscous. Anas urqphasumzu, King Zool. Jour. 4. 351. Although some difference exists in length between our specimens of this bird and thatdescribed by Capt. King as above, and also a trifling one in colouring, we have been induced toplace them as one, both having been received from the west coast of South America, placing oursthe smallest as the female. Mr. Vigors, however, makes no mention of the orange marking oneach side of the bill, which we suspect to be only apparent in old birds during the season of love.The buff colour on the wing also changes to white during certain times of the year in all thePintails. V J
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I 1 I 113 DAFILA PYROGASTER. Daf.—Subtus alba, singulis pennis marginatis apices versus lunulis brunneis. BROWN-BELLIED PINTAIL. Pintail; below white, with each feather edged near its tip with a lunule of bright brown. IN. IN. Length 2-4 Inner toe 11 Bill 1 4-5ths Middle toe .. .. 21 Tarsi 2 Outer toe 2 Under parts, breast, and upper part of the back dirty white, each feather having near its tipa lunule of brown, brighter on the breast and shaded off at the edges ; tail black; Aving covertsbrown; wing spot brassy purplish, edged posteriorly with brassy green, and then with a broadband of white, formed by the secondaries ; neck dirty white, slightly spotted with brown and black ;head slightly crested ; crown and crest brown; bill lead coloured ; legs black. Anas pyrogaster , Meyen Nova acta. In the museum of the Zoological Society, and in Lord Derbys collection. Inhabits Chili. DAFILA CAUDACUTA. Daf. Mas.—Capite colloque anteriore brunneis; posterioriter atro, albo raarginato.Da/.

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