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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r orange yellow (collectors differ on this point).Baker (1908) noted that during the breeding season the base of the upper mandible becomes consider-ably swollen and the orange color deepens to a deep orange or orange red. According to him the irisis brown to blood-red in old birds. Wing 363 mm. to 401; tarsus 56 to 61; culmen 58.4 to 66. Weight 7.5 to 9 .5 pounds (3.8 to 4.3 kilograms); a very fat bird in captivity 9.75 pounds (4.87kilograms). Adult Female: Practically the same plumage as in male, but never becomes quite so highly glossedand colored. Bill pale dull lemon, rarely with orange tinge; black mottlings same as in male; base ofupper mandible never swollen or red in color; iris brown, never red brown or blood-red (Baker 1908).Weight 4.75 to 6.75 pounds (2.1 to 3.6 kilograms). Wing 305 mm. to 355; tarsus 53 to 61; culmen56 to 61. Young: Very little recorded on immatiu-e plumages. Immature birds are much more brown on thelower parts, but with the black collar on the fore neck.
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WHITE-WINGED WOOD DUCK 81 Young in Down : Not seen. Remaeks: Salvadori (1895) notices that this bird is kept in confinement in the East and then becomespartially albinistic, white feathers appearing on neck, breast, and abdomen. Stone (1903) men-tions two specimens collected in Sumatra which had the head, rump, and breast white. Blyth (1875)called attention to specimens in the Ley den Museum (from Java?) which were parti-colored. I haveseen one very albinistic specimen in the British Museum from the Moluccas and also one in theLeyden Museum. There are no specific accounts of the domestication of this duck that I can find. Moult: Baker (1908) fotmd this species moulting in September or October. The flight feathers wereshed very rapidly and the birds were then imable to rise from the ground for about a fortnight. Afterthat they were able to flutter from one perch to another or to take short flights. The new plumageis extremely rich and glossy, and gives the birds an entirely different a

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