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Title: A natural history of the ducks
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938 Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951, ill Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946, ill Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927, ill Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Company Cambridge : The Riverside Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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hite; top of head and a band along hind neck, back, rump, upper wing-coverts, scapulars and tertials dark glossy green; on each side of head and neck is an oblong pale-green patch separated from the white of the face and throat by a narrow black band; lower neck, upper breast and flanks rufous chestnut; lower breast and abdomen pure white; primaries and tail feathers black; a white speculum on the inner primaries and outer secondaries; under wing-coverts black. Iris dark brown to crimson; bill bright yellow to orange with blackish nail; legs and feet bluish black. Hume believed that the iris changed to crimson during the breeding season. Length 315 mm.; wing 158; tarsus 25; culmen 25. Adult Female: Duller, more pale in color; no pale-green patch nor dark band on sides of neck, face being spotted and mottled with brown. Iris dark brown; bill darker than in male, being dusky yellow, almost black at the tip; legs bluish black shading to yellowish gray on outer side. Size same as in male. < 0.
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OOC5 C5 > < o AFRICAN PYGMY GOOSE 95 Young: Nearly the same as female; forehead more or less brown according to age, the black band on neck obscure or wholly lacking. Bill yellow; back side of tarsus and outer edge of toes yellow. Young in Down: Not described. DISTRIBUTION The Pygmy Goose is found in Africa south of the Sahara, and in Madagascar. On the west coast it has been found as far north as Senegambia (Rendall, 1892) and Casamance (Verreaux, 1851). Rochebrune (1883-85) also says it is common in the Senegambian region and it is re- Sene-ported in large flocks on the Soma Swamp in Gambia (British Museum specimen), gambia There are, however, few records of its occurrence from the coast of Portuguese Guinea to the Gold Coast. Presumably it inhabits these regions. In the British Museum there is a single specimen from Gunnal, Portuguese Guinea. From the Gold Coast it has been reported as occurring at Cape Coast (Fraser, fide Reichenow, 1900) and at Volta (Ussher, 1874). Hartert (1886)

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