CLANGULA LEUCONOTA.—S mith.
Aves.— P late CVII. Male.
C. capite magno, alto, subcristata; capitis lateribus postice, cervicis lateribus, guttereque superne
pallide flavo-rufis; dorso alisque brunneo-rubris, plumis auranteo-rubro-fasciatis; pectore abdo-
mineque subrufis bruneo-rubro-fasciatis; rostri lateribus ad basin viridi flavis, viridi-nigro-vermi-
culatis; tarsis pedibusque viridi-nigris.
Clangula Leuconota, Smith. Catalogue of South African Museum, 1837.
Thalassornis Leuconota. Eyton’s Monog. of Anatidae, page 168, 1838.
C olour.—Front and upper surface of head umber-brown, pencilled
sparingly with dirty sienna-yellow; hind head and centre of neck superiorly
variegated with umber-brown and sienna-yellow, lower or hinder part of neck
sienna-yellow, spotted with umber-brown; a large white blotch on each
side of base of upper mandible; feathers in front of eye umber-brown,
slightly freckled with sienna-yellow; the sides of the head and of the
throat superiorly sienna-yellow, the former towards the upper surface of
the head variegated with small umber-brown spots, and low on the neck
tinged with pale Dutch-orange; the sides and back of the neck inferiorly,
as also the interscapulars umber-brown, barred and narrowly tipped with
dirty white; the lower portion of the neck anteriorly, the breast, belly, and
under tail coverts sienna-yellow, barred with umber-brown, the latter
scarcely visible on the breast of aged individuals. Back pure white; upper
tail coverts umber-brown, narrowly tipped with white; shoulders, the small
feathers external to quill coverts, and tertiary quill feathers umber-brown,
barred and tipped with white, or with a colour intermediate between reddish-
orange and chestnut-brown. Primary quill coverts intermediate between
broccoli and chestnut-brown; secondary coverts umber-brown, tipped with
pale sienna-yellow; primary quill feathers a colour between chestnut and
wood-brown; secondary quill feathers brownish red, diluted with broccoli-
brown ; tertiaries umber-brown, and more or less tipped with light chestnut
brown. Tail brownish-red, the vanes partially edged with sienna-yellow,
and more or less variegated with irregular partial bars of the same colour.
Eyes dark brown. Bill blackish green towards base, variegated with
yellowish green in the form of small spots or reticulations. Legs and toes
dirty livid bluish black; webs and nails black.