. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CEDEMIA PERSPICILLATA : SURF DUCK. 329 patch on forehead and another on nape ; none on the wing. Size of ffi. americana; gape of bill about Female smaller ; bill black, shorter, gape about ; feathers of culmen hardly or not reaching nostrils ; feet dark, tinged with dusky-reddish; webs black; plumage sooty-brown, below silvery-gray, sides of head with much whitish, chiefly in two patches, one loral, the other Fig. 71. — Young Male Surf Duck,
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CEDEMIA PERSPICILLATA : SURF DUCK. 329 patch on forehead and another on nape ; none on the wing. Size of ffi. americana; gape of bill about Female smaller ; bill black, shorter, gape about ; feathers of culmen hardly or not reaching nostrils ; feet dark, tinged with dusky-reddish; webs black; plumage sooty-brown, below silvery-gray, sides of head with much whitish, chiefly in two patches, one loral, the other Fig. 71. — Young Male Surf Duck, with Outline of Bill from below. A migrant and winter visitant, in numbers interme- diate between those of the other species of the genus, the circumstances of its appearance, however, being the same. Dr. Brewer notes them all as " migratory " only, ignoring their winter residence. Any of them may be casually found during the whole year ; but none appear to be properly estimable as summer residents or breed- ers in New Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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