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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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8 ; Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv,p. 456 ; Oates, Game-B. ii, p. 299. Descrijition. Adult male.—Whole head reddish-bay, richest and darkest onthe under surface and sides, paling from the forehead to the end of the crest,\\ here it is reddish-buff. Xeck blackish-brow n ; upper back dark brown, gettingmore and more pale towards the rump, the bases of the featliers next thescapulars stiouing in a white band ; rump and upper tail-coverts bhickish-brown,more or less glossed green ; tail silvery-grey-browu : breast blackish-brown,paling on the low er breast and abdomen ; under tail-coverts dark brown ; flanks,axillaiies, and under wing-coverts w hite ; coverts bordering the wing and runninginto the scapulars white ; other coverts greyish-brow)i ; secondaiies white, some-times tinged grey or creamy, with a subterminal band of brown from 2-5 to4 inches wide ; inner secondaries like the coverts; outermost primary brown onthe outer web and inside of the inner web and tip, the remainder white, this
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NETTA RUFINA. 209 white gradually increasing in extent on each primary until the innermostprimaries are all white with a hroad brown tip. Bill vermilion-red ; the nail whitish, tinged pink or sometimes yellowish, thebase next the feathers of the forehead and the gape more or less dusky brownexcept in the oldest birds; legs and feet orange, orange-red, or dull fleshy-red ;irides deep or light reddish-brown to bright light red. In the adult male the bill is a brilliant crimson, sometimes inchning tovermilion; the nail brown or white, tinged with brownish horn, or pink hornybrown or yellow at tip. There is often a dusky shade round the nostrils ; thegape is often blackish, as is likewise the base of the lower mandible and the basalportion of the membrane between its rami; but these are all traces, I think, ofimmaturity. The legs and feet are dingy salmon-colour or reddish-orange, dusky on thejoints and blackish on the webs ; but in. slightly younger but full-plumagedbirds the legs and fe

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