. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 698 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — LAMELLIBOSTBES — ANSEBES. M;71 I loug coverts. A peculiar as well as most beautiful genus; the Chinese Mandarin Duck, A. galericulata,
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 698 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — LAMELLIBOSTBES — ANSEBES. M;71 I loug coverts. A peculiar as well as most beautiful genus; the Chinese Mandarin Duck, A. galericulata, is still more remarkably, though not more elegantly, colored than ours. 719. A. spon'sa. (Lat. «^owsa, betrothed : i. e., as if in wedding dress. Fig. 484.) Wood Duck. SuMMEK Duck. " The ; Adult ^ : Bill pinkish-white, with lake-red base, black ridge, tip, and under mandible ; iris and edges of eyelids red; feet orange, with black claws. Upper part of the head, including crest, ghstening green and purple ; a narrow white line over eye from bill to occiput, and another behind eye to nape, these white lines mixing in the crest. A broad white patch on the throat, forking behind, one branch mounting head behind eye, the other passing to side of neck. Sides and front of lower neck and fore breast rich purplish-chest- nut, prettily marked with several chains of angular white spots. A large white black-edged crescent of enlarged feathers in front of the -wing. Under parts pure white, the sides yellow- ish-gray vermiculated with black and wliite wavy bars; the enlarged flanlc-feathers broadly rayed witli black and white; the lining of the wings white barred with grayish-brown, of which cohir is the crissum. Upper parts gen- erally lustrous with bronzy-green and purple ; scapulars and inner secondaries velvet-black, glossed with purple and green ; a green spec- ulum, succeeded by white tips of tlie seconda- ries ; primaries frosted on outer webs near end. Adult 9 ;
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