. Birds of La Plata . e, divided from the green area by a black band;beneath paler, breast washed with rusty red; bill and feet orange;length , wing 7 inches. This richly coloured Teal, which is widely extendedin South America from Guiana down to the Straitsof Magellan, is usually met with in pairs near BuenosAyres, although as many as five or six are sometimesseen together. In habits it is a tree-Duck, preferringwater-courses in the neighbourhood of woods, andis frequently seen perched on horizontal flight is slow and with the wings very muchdepressed, as in a Duck about to a
. Birds of La Plata . e, divided from the green area by a black band;beneath paler, breast washed with rusty red; bill and feet orange;length , wing 7 inches. This richly coloured Teal, which is widely extendedin South America from Guiana down to the Straitsof Magellan, is usually met with in pairs near BuenosAyres, although as many as five or six are sometimesseen together. In habits it is a tree-Duck, preferringwater-courses in the neighbourhood of woods, andis frequently seen perched on horizontal flight is slow and with the wings very muchdepressed, as in a Duck about to alight on the water;and the beautiful blue, green, and white speculum isthus rendered very conspicuous. The note of themale in the love-season is a long, plaintive whistle,singularly pure and sweet in sound, and heard usuallyin the evening. It is a rather curious coincidence that the ver-nacular name of this Teal in La Plata should bePato Portugues, which means, as things are under-stood in that region, Brazilian BROWN PINTAIL 147 BROWN PINTAIL Dafila spimcauda Above btown; feathers black in the centre and margined withbrown; head above bright rufous spotted with black; wings brown,with a large speculum of bronzy black, distinctly margined aboveand below with buff; beneath, throat dirty white, sparingly spottedwith black; breast, flanks, and crissum tinged with rufous, the featherswith black centres; belly white, in the lower portion sUghtly variedwith brown; bill black, at the base yellow; feet plumbeous; length19, wing inches. The Brown Pintail is the commonest Duck in theArgentine Republic^ and unites in the largest is also, according to Philippi and Landbeck, thecommonest species in Chili. It ranges from SouthBrazil and Peru to the Magellan Straits and theFalklands; but is probably most abundant in thePlata district and in North Patagonia. In the autumnit sometimes visits the pampas in immense numbers,to feed on the seed of the giant thistle {Carduusmari
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