. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 30 LAMKLLIUOSTllAL SWIMMEUS — ANSEliKS. '^ JBthjiA vallisneria. THE CANVAS-BACK DT7CX. ^liKiH vnllinnerin, Am. Orii. VIII. 1814,103, iil. 7, lig. 3. FalUjulii va/limin-iii, SiKl'llKNs, .Sluiw's Ocii. Zool. Xll. ii. 1824, lOtl. —Sw. & lilcli. F. B. A. 11. 1831, 451. - NiTT. Man. II. 1834, 430. —All). Orii. Iliog. IV. 1838, 1, j)l. 301 ; Syiioi). 1S31>. 28,'); U. Am. VI. 1843, 21il», pi. 3!»."). — Couiis, Key, 1872, 2U0 ; Check List, 1873, no. 004 ; cd. 2, 1882, no. 724 ; 13. .\. \
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 30 LAMKLLIUOSTllAL SWIMMEUS — ANSEliKS. '^ JBthjiA vallisneria. THE CANVAS-BACK DT7CX. ^liKiH vnllinnerin, Am. Orii. VIII. 1814,103, iil. 7, lig. 3. FalUjulii va/limin-iii, SiKl'llKNs, .Sluiw's Ocii. Zool. Xll. ii. 1824, lOtl. —Sw. & lilcli. F. B. A. 11. 1831, 451. - NiTT. Man. II. 1834, 430. —All). Orii. Iliog. IV. 1838, 1, j)l. 301 ; Syiioi). 1S31>. 28,'); U. Am. VI. 1843, 21il», pi. 3!»."). — Couiis, Key, 1872, 2U0 ; Check List, 1873, no. 004 ; cd. 2, 1882, no. 724 ; 13. .\. \V. 1874, r)75. ^Ilfthyu viiHimurUi, Wnv., Isis, 1820, 980.— IJaikd, B. N. Am. 1858, 794; Cat. N. Am. 15. IS.^li, no. .';!>2. ^i/hi/iii viillisnrria, Sii,. & Norn. Ncotr. 1873. — Umow. Norn. X. Am. B. 1881, no. 617. Arhfunctta vallisiicria, Daiuo, B. N. Am. 1858, 71*3 (in text). Haii. Nwivly tlio wlmle of North Anarictt, breeding from the Northwestern States iiorthwaid to Aliiskii; south in winter to (iimtemuhi. Sp. CiiAU. Itill long anil narrow, the end much depressed, with tlie nuil scarcely decurveil, the base high, with the cuhuen gradually sloping and scarcely concave ; culnieu nearly us long as % !^-. a:, vallisneria. the middle toe (without claw), and about three times the greatest wi<lth of the maxilla. Adult vutk : Head and neck chestnut-rufous, the former brownish dusky (sometimes ((uite blackish) anteriorly and on top ; juguluni and anterior part of back, lower part of rump, upper tail-coverts, and posterior part of irissuni black ; back, scapulai's, flanks, sides, and anal region white, finely and delicately verniiculated with dusky ; breast and alxlomen innnaculate white. Wing-coverts deep ash-gray, finely sprinkled with white ; secondaries ("speculum") li;,diter, more bluish gray, the upper feathera edged with black ; tertials like the longer scapulars ; primaries slate-color, the inner <piills more cinereous, except at e
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