. The birds of Canada : with descriptions of their habits, food, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure . riibida.—The Ruddy Duck;Dipper. The Ruddy Duck is a spring and fall , sixteen inches ; color, chestnut-redabove ; grayish-white below ; top of head, Canada during the fall migrations. E. doininica.—The Black Masked Duck. This species is an accidental visitor in habitat is Labrador, the Lower St. Lawrence,and Lake Champlain. Birds of Canada. 103 Sjib-Fainily Mergin.^.— The Sheldrakes. Alergus serrator.—The Red-breasted Merganser. The Red-breasted M
. The birds of Canada : with descriptions of their habits, food, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure . riibida.—The Ruddy Duck;Dipper. The Ruddy Duck is a spring and fall , sixteen inches ; color, chestnut-redabove ; grayish-white below ; top of head, Canada during the fall migrations. E. doininica.—The Black Masked Duck. This species is an accidental visitor in habitat is Labrador, the Lower St. Lawrence,and Lake Champlain. Birds of Canada. 103 Sjib-Fainily Mergin.^.— The Sheldrakes. Alergus serrator.—The Red-breasted Merganser. The Red-breasted Merganser breeds in Cana-da. The head and neck is dark green, underparts, yellowish-white. Head with a conspicuouscrest. Nests, in a marsh or on an island ; eggs,ten, light drab. M. americaims.—The Goosander, or Fish Duck. This beautiful fowl frequently breeds in On-tario. It builds its nest on the top of a tallstump, or on the branch of a dead tree ; eggs,eight in number, of a pale creamy white. Headand neck, green; back, black; under parts,salmon color; wings, white, crossed by a bandof HOODED MERGANSER. Lophodytes cueullatus.—The Hooded Merganser. This elegant bird is not so common as theother Mercransers. It breeds in Canada. Nests, I04 Birds of Canada. in the top of a stub or in a tall pine ; eggs,twelve or fourteen in number, of a clear whitecolor. This species is eighteen inches long ; thehead, neck, and tail, black ; the under parts andcentre of the crest, white. SUB-ORDER GAVI^.Family PELICANID^. THE PELICANS. Pclicanus fiiscus.—The Brown Pelican. The Brown Pelican is fifty-six inches long;bill, thirteen and a-half inches ; color, specimens of this fine bird have beenshot in Western Canada within the last twoyears. They are accidental visitors. P. crytJirorJiyncJms.—The Rough-billed Pelican. This magnificent bird is seventy inches inlength; the prevailing color white. It is anoccasional visitor in Western Canada. Family SULID^. THE G
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