ig.
GREY-HEADED
G.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
F e m a l e .
P l a c e .
20.
MOUNTAIN G.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
L ’Oie fauvage à tête grife de la Côte de Coromandel, Soit. Voy. Ltd. K.
p. 220 ?
Grey-headed Duck, Brown III. pi. 41. 42.
Lev* Muf.
E S S than the Brent Goofe. Bill dufky : head and neck
pale grey : cheeks white : bread:, belly, and back, bright
ferruginous, marked with darker fem (circular lines : wing coverts
white : fécond quills green ; prime ones black : vetit orange,
eroded with a band of black : tail and legs black.
The female differs in having no white on the cheeks, and the
colour in general being lefs bright. One of thefe in the Leverian
Mujeum has the whole of the head and neck deep afh-colour :
there are alfo two others, but in neither of them is the ferruginous
part of the plumage drriated.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; and (if the fame with that
deferibed by Sonnerat) is met with alfo on the coaft of Coromandel
*. Among Sir Jofeph Bankers drawings I find one fimilar to,
if not the fame with the above : the length about twenty inches.
It inhabits- the mountains of the Cape, and is called Bergenten by
the Hutch. The above Ipecies feems much allied to the lad:.
Hill or Mountain Goofe, Kolb. Capo ii". p. 139V
g l Z E larger than the tame Goofe. The wing feathers, and thofe
of the head, of a bright red fhining green.
* He exprefsly calls it the grey-headed Duck, yet fays, that the head and upper
parts are deep dirty rufous-colour: breaft and belly the fame, but paler: part
o f the wing white 1 quills lilky green for half their length, the reft black.
Inhabits.