. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 132 ANSBBES CASAECA coverts, edge of the wing, under wing-coverts (except the greater series, which are ashy-black) and axillaries pure white. Iris pale yellow; bill and legs black. Length about 26 ; wing 15 ; tail 5-0 ; culmen 2-0 ; tarsus 2-4. The female is smaller than the male and has the front of the face white, including the forehead, patch round the eye and chin ; wing 13 ; culmen 1-75 ; tarsus 1' Fig. 40.—Head of Casarca cana, g . x l Distribution.—This Shelduck has a very restricted range and seems to be most common on the high plateau of the Co
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 132 ANSBBES CASAECA coverts, edge of the wing, under wing-coverts (except the greater series, which are ashy-black) and axillaries pure white. Iris pale yellow; bill and legs black. Length about 26 ; wing 15 ; tail 5-0 ; culmen 2-0 ; tarsus 2-4. The female is smaller than the male and has the front of the face white, including the forehead, patch round the eye and chin ; wing 13 ; culmen 1-75 ; tarsus 1' Fig. 40.—Head of Casarca cana, g . x l Distribution.—This Shelduck has a very restricted range and seems to be most common on the high plateau of the Colony and about the Orange Eiver. It has been met with hitherto only in Cape Colony, the Orange Eiver Colony and the Transvaal, and appears to be absent from Natal, Ehodesia and German South-west Africa. The following are recorded localities: Cape Colony—Cape flats, Berg Eiver and Beaufort West (S. A. Mus.), Deelfontein (Seimund); Orange Eiver Colony—Kroonstad, March, not plentiful (Symonds), Basutoland fairly common (Murray); Transvaal— Potchefstroom, July (Ayres). Habits.—The Berg-eend is generally considered rather a scarce bird, but Messrs. Grant and Seimund found it very common all the year round at Deelfontein in the centre of the Karoo; it is generally met with in pairs, but it is not unusual to see half a dozen together on a dam, feeding or resting; it is frequently caught when young and domesticated by the farmers in South Africa, and it bears captivity very well ; it also hybridises freely with other species. A female, formerly in the Zoological Gardens of London, bred first of all with a Buddy Shelduck, afterwards with one of her own hybrid offspring, and finally with a common Shelduck [Tadorna. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, Will
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