ANAS FLAVIROSTRIS.—S m it h .
A v e s.— P l a t e XCVI. (M a l e .)
A. superne brunneus, plumis albo-marginatis; inferne rufo-albus lunulis brunneis variegatus; alarum
speculo viridi-splendente antice, postice interneque nigro, marginato; rostro superne flavo, maculo
oblongo nigro-brunneo e fronte usqu& ad apicem ; pedibus rubro-brunneis.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 19 unc. 6 lin.; caudee 4 unc.
Anas flavirostris, Smith, Eyton’s Monograph on the Anatidse, p. 141, Lond. 1838.
Colour.—1The upper surface of the head and the lores deep umber-brown
freckled with short and fine longitudinal dull white lines arising from each
feather being narrowly edged and tipped with that colour ; sides of head and
neck dull broccoli-brown, finely streaked with dirty white; interscapulars,
scapulars, back, and upper tail coverts intermediate between umber-brown
and brownish red, each feather broadly margined with dirty white; breast,
belly, and under tail coverts mottled brown and dirty white. The brown is
nearly of the same tint as that of the back, and is the predominating colour
of each feather, the white existing only at the edges and in the form of an
angular and incomplete bar about midway between the base and apex of
each. Shoulder feathers and secondary quill coverts greyish brown, a part of
the former narrowly edged with pale broccoli-brown, the other part with dull
white; the secondary quill coverts are tipped with velvet black, behind which
each has a narrow bar of white. Primary quill coverts reddish brown, faintly
edged exteriorly and tipped with greyish white. Primary quill feathers light
brownish red, tinted with grey, the outer vanes darkest and narrowly edged
with yellowish white ; shafts deep brownish red. Secondary quill feathers
brownish red, broadly tipped with white, and behind the white each has a
broad bar of velvet black, the outer vanes from near the quills to the last mentioned
bar are a brilliant shining duck green. The innermost of the secondary
and the outermost of the tertiary quill feathers have the outer vanes velvet-
black, so that three sides of the wing-speculum are bounded with that colour;
the rest of the tertiaries are of the same colour as the back and are narrowly
edged with dirty white. Tail intermediate between umber-brown and brownish