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Identifier: indianduckstheir00bake (find matches)
Title: The Indian ducks and their allies
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944 Lodge, George Edward, ill Grnvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Green, J., lithographer Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Ducks Ducks Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Bombay) : Published by the Bombay Natural History Society London : R.H. Porter Calcutta and Simla : Thacker, Spink, and Co. Bombay : Thacker and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ouii»j, Jour. U. J. //. S. xi. p. 572.Asarcornis leucoptera. Gates, Gamc-B. ii, p. i;j!).Asarcornis scutulatus, Stanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 424. Dcseription. Adult male.—Head and upper part of neck white thicklyspotted with l^hick. tlie black spots usually more numerous ou the upper part ofthe head and neck ; lower part of the neck and mantle glossy black, tlie \\ holeof the lower ))arts rich chestnut-browu, more or less mottled, when freshlymoulted, \\ith glossy black on the breast and abdomen ; back, rump, and upper
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ASARCORNIS yCUTULATA. 3;^. tail-coverts olive-brown, glossed with metallic-blue and green ; scapularies olive-brown ; smaller upper wing-coverts white, the median ones a so^t blue-grey,broadly tipped with black, which is highly glossed in old males; qidlls olive-brown, the secondaries Mith the outer webs bluish-grey forming a speculum ;the first inner secondary or tertiary ^^•hite on the outer web, and the quill nextit with a large white patch on the same web ; under wiug-coverts and axillarieswhite, the former Avith a few brown feathers mixed; tail blackish, glossed withgreen in old males. The bill varies from lemon-yellow to deep orange, the base and tip black, andwith black mottlings everywhere, generally least numerous about the centre ofthe bill. Gonys paler, as a rule, than the rest of the bill. During the breeding-season the base of the maxilla becomes considerably swollen, thouo-h neverbecoming an actual comb, and the orange colour deepens to deep orange-red orlight red. The

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