A natural history of the ducks (1922) (14761766381)

Identifier: naturalhistoryof01phil (find matches)
Title: A natural history of the ducks
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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oc. London, 1876, p. 694, pi. 67.Sarkidiornis africana G. R. Gray, Genera Birds, vol. 3, p. 605, no. 2, 1845.Sarcidiornis africana Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 9, p. 349,1852.Sarcidiornis melanonotus Liehtenstein, Nomenclator Avium, p. 101, 1854. Veenacular Names English: Comb DuckKnob-billed DuckBlack-backed DuckAfrican Humped Duck French: Canard a bosseOie caboucOie bronzee German: HockergansGlanzgansBronzeriickige GansSchwarzriickige Gans India: Nukta — HinduNakwa — Chota NagpurNaki hansa — UriyaJutu chilluwa — Telegu Dod sarle haki — Canarese Neer-koli — Coimbatore Tan-bay — Burmese Bowkbang — KarenMadagascar: Arosy Ara Angongo Sivongo Kaboka RasanaAngola: Vioto or Ecubo Gazaland: IsekwiArabic: Wuz el tin Wuz abu qadum Berkejh Teukimbub — Tuareg DESCRIPTION Adult Male : Head and neck white, spotted with metallic black feathers that coalesce more or lessupon the crown, nape and hind neck; lower neck and whole lower plumage white, tinged sometimes
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COMB or KNOB-BILLED DUCK 69 with rufous gray; rest of upper plumage and wings black, glossed with green and blue, except on thesecondaries, which are glossed with bronze, and the scapulars, on which the gloss is purple; tailbrown. A black mark, almost a collar, on sides of neck, and another black band on the front of theimder tail-coverts. Lower back gray (Baker, 1908). Iris dark brown to yellowish brown; bill black, and at breeding season surmounted by a comb-likeprotuberance at the base, which is black with white spots (white spots do not occur regularly); feetdark leadish gray. Bill paler on the lower mandible, and fleshy toward its base (Hume and Marshall, 1879). The fleshyprotuberance on the bill becomes greatly enlarged during the breeding season, frequently measuring55 by 61 mm. (A. Anderson, 1874). According to Bohm (1882), Finn (1909), and Horsbrugh (1912) the male during the breeding seasoncarries a small bunch of orange feathers at the sides of the lower abdomen. Writing of