. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 488 AND OOLOGY. â ] r "^ ^ s r)!«. AfnIe. â UeaA nnd neck bright j{rii:>R-groon, with violet gloss, the top of
. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 488 AND OOLOGY. â ] r "^ ^ s r)!«. AfnIe. â UeaA nnd neck bright j{rii:>R-groon, with violet gloss, the top of the head duller; a white rin;; rMiinil the middle of the neck, below which and on the rorepnrt and sides of llio broust the color is dark brownish-chestnut; under parts and sides, with the scnpiilnrs, pnle-gray, very linely undulntcd with dusky; the outer scapulars with a brownish ti'ige; forepart of buck roddish-brown; posterior more olivaceous; crissum nnd upper tiiil coverts black, the latter with a blue ploss: tail extornully whitj; wing coverts brownish-gray, the greater covcrtn tipped first with white, and then more narrowly with black; speculum purplish-violet, ternii- Dated with black; a recurved tuft of feathers on the rump; iris dark-brown. Fennle. â With the wing exactly as on the male; the under part* plain whitish- OcIirt!y, each feather obscurely blotched with dusky; head and neck Birailar, spotted and streaked with dusky; the chin and throat above unspotted; upper parts dark- brown, the leathers broadly edged and banded with reddish-brown, parallel with the circumference. Length of male, twenty-three inches; wing, eleven; tarsus, one and seventy one- hundredths; commissure of bill, two and fifty one-hundredths inches. The Mallard is found in New England only as a wan- derer, and then only in the western sections in the spring and autnmn seasons; a few are seen in the waters of Lake Chainplain, and oc- ». ^ J3- ^^ casionally a small flock is found in the C
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