Plate CCCXLIII. Male, Female, and Young.
Tail short, much graduated, of eighteen stiff, narrow feathers;
plumage of lower parts stiff and glossy. Male with the bill light
greyish-blue; upper part of head and nape deep bluish-black; a large
white patch on each side of the head, from the bill to behind the ear;
neck all round, all the upper parts, and sides glossy chestnut-red;
lower parts greyish-white, tinged with brown, and marked with
transverse interrupted bands of dusky; wing-coverts, quills, and
tail-feathers blackish-brown. Female with the bill darker, the crown,
and all the upper parts dark reddish-brown, minutely dotted and
undulated with dusky; lower parts duller, but similarly marked;
throat, and a band from the base of the upper mandible to beneath the
eye, brownish-white. Young, in second plumage, reddish-brown above,
barred with dusky; wings and tail dark greyish-brown; cheeks, fore
part and sides of neck, and all the lower parts dull yellowish-white,
undulated with dusky, as in the rump above; lower tail-coverts white.
_Male_, 14-3/4, 21-1/2.
Ruddy Duck, Anas rubida, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 137.
Fuligula rubida, Bonap. Syn. p. 390.
Fuligula rubida, Ruddy Duck, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v.
ii. p. 455.
Ruddy Duck, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 426.
Ruddy Duck, Fuligula rubida, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 326.
*** Bill semicylindrical, at the end enlarged by soft
membranous expansions, the unguis broadly obovate and
incurved.