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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
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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 Lichtenstein, Nomenclator Avium, p. 101, 1854. Vernacular Names English: Comb Duck Knob-billed Duck Black-backed Duck African Humped Duck French: Canard a bosse Oie cabouc Oie bronzee German: Hockergans Glanzgans Bronzerückige Gans Schwarzrückige Gans India: Nukta — HinduNakwa — Chota Nagpur Naki hansa — UriyaJutu chilluwa — Telegu Dod sarle haki — Canarese Neer-koli — Coimbatore Tan-bay — Burmese Bowkbang — Karen Madagascar: Arosy Ara Angongo Sivongo Kaboka Rasana Angola: Vioto or Ecubo Gazaland: Isekwi Arabic: 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 less upon 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 the secondaries, which are glossed with bronze, and the scapulars, on which the gloss is purple; tail brown. A black mark, almost a collar, on sides of neck, and another black band on the front of the under tail-coverts. Lower back gray (Baker, 1908). Iris dark brown to yellowish brown; bill black, and at breeding season surmounted by a comb-like protuberance at the base, which is black with white spots (white spots do not occur regularly); feet dark leadish gray. Bill paler on the lower mandible, and fleshy toward its base (Hume and Marshall, 1879). The fleshy protuberance 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 season carries a small bunch of orange feathers at the sides of the lower abdomen. Writing of

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