. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ANATIDJi, DUCKS. GEN. 260-1. 289 cinereus of South America, both related to oar gen. 2G4; there are but very few others. The genus Erismatura is the type of a small remarkable group, as noticed beyond, sometimes considered as a sabfamilj^. Biziura lohata of Australia, with a fleshy appendage under the bill, the African T/ialassornis leuconota,
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ANATIDJi, DUCKS. GEN. 260-1. 289 cinereus of South America, both related to oar gen. 2G4; there are but very few others. The genus Erismatura is the type of a small remarkable group, as noticed beyond, sometimes considered as a sabfamilj^. Biziura lohata of Australia, with a fleshy appendage under the bill, the African T/ialassornis leuconota, the Nesonetta aucklandica, and several species of Erismatura, compose the subgroup. ^j-iyo t'oi yi' h'O 260-1. Genus PULIGULA Stephens. * ^ with the head, neck, and body anteriorly, black, the former glossy ; lower back, rump, tail and its coverts, blackish; below, white, with fine black waving on the sides and lower belly; 9 with the head and anterior parts brown, witli or â without pure white around the bill, and other black parts of the $ rather brown ; (J 9 bill black and blue, or dusky; feet livid. (Falix.) Greater Scanp Duck. Big Black-head. Blue-bill. Raft I)uc7c. Flock- ing Foivl. Shuffler. No ring round neck; siDeculura white; Ijack and sides whitish, finely waved in zigzag with black ; gloss of head green ; bill dull blue with blade nail; legs plumbeous; 2 with the face pure white, the black-and-white vermiculation less distinct. About 20 long; wing 9. N. Am. WiLS., viii, 84, pi. 69, f. 3; Nott., ii, 437 (includes next species) ; AuD., vii, 355, pi. 498 (not of vi, 316) ; Bu., 791 marila. fLesser Scaup Duck. Dittle Black-head (with other names of the fore- going). Extremelj' similar; smaller, about 16; wing 8; gloss of head chiefly purple ; flanks and scapulars less closely waved with black ? It is very difEcult to define this bird specificall}', and it may be simply a small southern form ; but it appears to preserve its characters, although constantly associated wit
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