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 116 THE CONDOR Vol. XVII Coloration and markings' are as follows: Chin and throat, immaculate, pale pinkish buff; sides of head, and sides and front of neck, with ground color of the same, thickly streaked and speckled with dusky; top of head dull black- ish, the feathers narrowly edged with pinkish buff. The dusky of the top of the head merges into drab gray along the median line of the back of the neck. The feathers of the back are mostly plain blackish, unmarked, but with these there are other feathem intermixed, apparently remnants of the disappearing immature plumage, of the same ground color, but with edgings and crescentic cross markings of pale pinkish buff. Ground color of upper breast buffy, the feathers with blackish centers and broad, blackish, encircling ellipses. On the lower breast, abdomen and crissum, the ground color becomes decidedly reddish, close to brick red, and the dusky markings are isolated spots. A spot is present on nearly every feather. Sides and flanks with larger blackish Fig. 44. Foi LEFT TO llIOI-IT: CIqlA/XION TEAL, surrosEi) nYBmI), A) SnOV- ELLER; SI-IOWS RELATIVE SIZE AqD PEOPORTIOlS OF BILL OF EACI-I spots, and broad crescentic barring of dusky and buffy. In the under tail coverts new feathers are appearing, some black, others with fine vermicula- tions of white and black, or barred with black and buff. There is appearance as of a pure white area developing on either side of this tract. The wings of the male Blue-winged and the Cinnamon Teal appear to be alike, and both seem to be indistinguishable in color and markings from the Shoveller. The bird under consideration has the wing of the same general type, blue lesser coverts, with narrow white band, and metallic green specu- lum. Bill blackish, feet yellowish, as in the immature male Shoveller. The bird is undergoing molt over much of the body, there being many old feathers on the back and a few on the breast. The lateral rectrices are old and frayed, but the central pair are new, and still partly ensheathed.