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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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ale.—Whole head and neck glossy green, showing a))arple tinge in certain lights, especially on the upper parts; upper breast, lowerneck, outer scapulars, and outer portion of upper back mauve-white ; a narrowcentre patch from the neck brown, the feathers edged pale, in iiiie specimenswith broad white edges; back brown, tlie featliers pale-edged; rump and uppertail-coverts black, glossed with peacock-green and blue, the former tint pre-dominating ; rectrices brown, edged white, increasingly broader on the outerones ; lower breast, flanks, and abdomen rich rufous-chestnut, some of the featherson the posterior and interior flanks lighter and vermiculated with brown ; thighsthe same btit duller : sometimes a few black spots on the breast; wing-coverts abeautiful blue-grey, some of those next the inner secondaries glossed Prussianblue on the terminal qtiarter of the outer web; greater coverts more brown andedged with white, forming a wing-bar next the speculum ; one of the outer a) I—I
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SPATTLA CLYPEATA. 197 scapulars brilliant grey-blue, otliers black glossed with green and with whitecentres ; tertiaries deep brown-black, glossed with green, turning to blue at thetips ; quills darlc brown ; speculum a brilliant metallic green ; under tail-covertsblack, glossed with blue-green ; flanks next tail-coverts white. Bill black; legs orange, claws horny brown; irides yellow, orange, ororange-red. III the male in winter the bill is black, usually with a greyish shade ; insome it may be called leaden dusky. In JNovember, when they first arrive, andin the case of birds of the year until much later, the bills of the males are likethose of the.females. The irides vary, as a rule, in the male from yellow to reddish-orange, butI have recorded them as brown in two or three males. The legs and feet vary from orange to Indian or tile-red and are usually brighter coloured in both sexes i;i the spring, and at the same season in the male than in the female. The webs are often dusky towa

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