. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. Ducks; Geese; Swans; Birds. 44 DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA. ANAS FULVIQULA MACULOSA {Senn.). nottled Black Duck. Special Character: Male : Top of head, blackish brown, raarghied with very pale buff; chin and throat, Isabella color; cheeks, buffy white, with narrow streaks of dark brown; feathers of breast, wings, upjier parts, and flanks, blackish brown, margined with pale buff; under parts, buffy white, each feather with a broad blackisli brown spot near the tip, g
. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. Ducks; Geese; Swans; Birds. 44 DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA. ANAS FULVIQULA MACULOSA {Senn.). nottled Black Duck. Special Character: Male : Top of head, blackish brown, raarghied with very pale buff; chin and throat, Isabella color; cheeks, buffy white, with narrow streaks of dark brown; feathers of breast, wings, upjier parts, and flanks, blackish brown, margined with pale buff; under parts, buffy white, each feather with a broad blackisli brown spot near the tip, giving a decidedly mottled appearance. Under tail coverts, blackish, with outer margin of inner web reddish buff, with inner web buffy white; the four median feathers of tail, blackish brown; all the others fuscous, margined with pale buff', having a V-shaped mark, as in A. fulvigula, but of a buffy white. Under surface of all tail feathers, light gray, excepting lour median, which are black- ish brown; hning of wing, white ; speculum, metallic purple ; feathers, tipped with white ; bill has a small black spot on base of lower edge of upper mandible, as in A. fulvirjula; feet, reddish orange. "VVing, ; cuhnen, ; tarsus, ; middle toe and , inches. Female: Similar to the male, excepting that there is no black spot on the bill at the base of the upper mandible. Wing, 10; culmen, ; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, inches. — Hennett, Auk, 1889, p. 26,3. The Mottled Black Duck occurs from Eastern Texas north to Kansas. Subgenus CHAULELASMUS Anaw sti'uiiera (male). ANAS STREPERA Liim. Qadwall. Gray Du(!K. Cheek Duck. Adidt male: Top of head, brownish, finely streaked and mottled with Itlack and dark brown; neck and breast, mottled (l)lack and white), the feathers being black, having a central white mark; under parts, white (sometimes grayish white). Under tail coverts, black, upper. Please note that these images are extracted from
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