. The Indian ducks and their allies . LU a; CO a! 1- if MEEGUS ALBELLUS. 263 The legs and feet vary from pale blue-grey to plumbeous and dark lavender;the webs, except just where they join the toes, being dusky to black, and theclaws brownish-black. Often there is an olive tinge on the tarsi, and occasionally—in the young only, I think—both tliese and the toes exhibit small dusky spotsand patches. Length 17 to 18-1 inches, wing 755 to 8-32, tail from rent 3-35 to 4-1,tarsus 1-2 to 131, bill from gape 1-63 to 1-72. Weight 1 lb. 4 ozs. to 1 lb. 12 ozs.*(Hume.) Female.—The black loreal patch in t
. The Indian ducks and their allies . LU a; CO a! 1- if MEEGUS ALBELLUS. 263 The legs and feet vary from pale blue-grey to plumbeous and dark lavender;the webs, except just where they join the toes, being dusky to black, and theclaws brownish-black. Often there is an olive tinge on the tarsi, and occasionally—in the young only, I think—both tliese and the toes exhibit small dusky spotsand patches. Length 17 to 18-1 inches, wing 755 to 8-32, tail from rent 3-35 to 4-1,tarsus 1-2 to 131, bill from gape 1-63 to 1-72. Weight 1 lb. 4 ozs. to 1 lb. 12 ozs.*(Hume.) Female.—The black loreal patch in the male is replaced by rich dark brow n,almost black in very old females; whole upper head, crest, and nape ferruginous-brown, richest and reddest at the end of the crest. Upper back grey-brown,changing to blackish-brown on the lower back and again to dark grey-brown onthe rump, upper tail-coverts and tail ; wings like those of the male, but theinner secondaries darker and browner, and the lesser coverts brown instead ofblack ;
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