. Birds. Birds. 466 anatidjE. to the base of the bill than to tbe tip; lamellse coarse. The â wings are short; the tail about half the length of the wing, euneate, composed of 18 very stiff, narrow, pointed feathers ; tarsi short; feet large, hind toe broadly lobed. Seven species are known, widely distributed, but the majority are peculiar to the Southern hemisphere. One species is an occasional visitor to India. 1611. Erismatura leucocephala. The White-headed Duck. Anas leucoceplialus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 65 (1769). Erismatura leucocephala, Blyth, Cat. p. 308; Hume ^ Marsh. Game B. ii
. Birds. Birds. 466 anatidjE. to the base of the bill than to tbe tip; lamellse coarse. The â wings are short; the tail about half the length of the wing, euneate, composed of 18 very stiff, narrow, pointed feathers ; tarsi short; feet large, hind toe broadly lobed. Seven species are known, widely distributed, but the majority are peculiar to the Southern hemisphere. One species is an occasional visitor to India. 1611. Erismatura leucocephala. The White-headed Duck. Anas leucoceplialus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 65 (1769). Erismatura leucocephala, Blyth, Cat. p. 308; Hume ^ Marsh. Game B. iii, p. 289; Hume, 8. F. viii, p. 456; ix, p. 296; x, p. 158; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 179; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 442; F. Finn, P. A. S. B. 1896, p. 62; Sherwood, Jour. Bom. N. H. Sac. xi, p. Pig. 123.âHead of E. leucocephala. i. Coloration. Male. Crown black; forehead, sides of head to a,bove eye, chin, and nape white; a blackish ring round the neck beneath the white, passing on tlie breast and sides into dull ferruginous barred irregularly with black; back, scapulars, rump, and sides of body buff, more or less rufous, speckled and vermicu- lated with black; upper tail-coverts chestnut; tail blackish (often faded); wings brown, the coverts and the outer webs of the secondaries speckled with buff; lower parts from breast pale buff, the dark bases of the feathers showing. Females and young males have only the chin, lower cheeks, and a stripe from above the gape, running back under the eye towards the nape, white, rest of the head black mixed with rufous; the upper tail-coverts are like the rest of the upper parts, and the breast is dull rufous without black bars. Otherwise the plumage resembles that of adult males. Some specimens are much more rufous than others. Bill pale ultramarine (in life) in adult males, dull plumbeous in females and young birds; irides dark brown; legs plumbeous black. Length about 18; tail 3'5 (3 to 4"5); wing 6-3; tarsus 1; bill fro
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