. Animals in menageries. beautiful green, and marginedtowards the quills with white: the long scapulars arenarrow and pointed, black in the middle, ferruginous onthe outside, and white on the middle margin: the terminalunder tail covers are velvet-black, with a white band oneach side the base of the tail; the lesser tail covers beingpale yellowish white: the quills and tail are nearly thecolour of the back; but some of the secondaries, justabove the mirror, have white and black stripes: bill andfeet dark lead-colour. JAVANESE DUCK. 249 The dimensions of the male above alluded to, were asfollow
. Animals in menageries. beautiful green, and marginedtowards the quills with white: the long scapulars arenarrow and pointed, black in the middle, ferruginous onthe outside, and white on the middle margin: the terminalunder tail covers are velvet-black, with a white band oneach side the base of the tail; the lesser tail covers beingpale yellowish white: the quills and tail are nearly thecolour of the back; but some of the secondaries, justabove the mirror, have white and black stripes: bill andfeet dark lead-colour. JAVANESE DUCK. 249 The dimensions of the male above alluded to, were asfollows : — Size and length of the common teal. Bill l-T-• wings, ^7, ; tail beyond, lf„, the same from thebase 3l; tarsus 1/j j middle toe ^{3. The Javanese Duck. Boschas Javanica, Sw. (Fig. 40.) Plumage of the body undulated with black transverseconcentric lines: head and nuchal crest chestnut,glossed with coppery green: chin and neck purewhite ; the latter with a glossy green collar. Anas Javanensis, Lath. Gen. This is evidently a river duck ; and, from its sin-gular beauty, should be a species of primary import-ance to the preserves of the Ornithological Society,whose objects are more especially devoted to the aquatictribes. A preserved skin was sent from China, alongwith that of the beautiful duck just described ; and wetrust that, through the exertions of some of our activecountrymen resident in its native country, living ex-amples will soon be imported. ^^hether this is the Javanese Teal of the ZoologicalSocietys Catalogue, 1 know not, for the name of Anasformosa, Pallas, is attached to that specimen ; thislatter name being our Beautiful Teal, or LathamsBaikal Teal. The following description, taken from a 250 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. specimen sent to Mr. Gray, and figured at the sametime as the preceding, will at once show how verydifferent it is from the Anas forrnosa of Pallas. In regard to form and structure, the bill, in breadth,contour, and elevation, is much m
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