. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 488 OBNITUOLOOY AND OOLOGY. Dkhcuiition. Afah.— llcad and neck bri^lit grass-frreen, wifli violet rIoss, the top of the lioad duller! a white ring round tiie mid
. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 488 OBNITUOLOOY AND OOLOGY. Dkhcuiition. Afah.— llcad and neck bri^lit grass-frreen, wifli violet rIoss, the top of the lioad duller! a white ring round tiie middle of tlie neck, below wiiich and on the forepart and sides of the breast the eolor is dark brownisli-clicstniit; inider jiarts and sides, with the scapulars, pale-gray, very liiu'ly undulated with dusky; the outer scapulars with a brownish tinge; forepart of back reddish-brown; posterior more olivaceous; crissuni and upper tail coverts black, the latter with a blue gloss; tail externally white; wing coverts brownish-gray, the greater coverts tipped (irst with white, and then more narrowly with black; speculum i)urplisli-violet, termi- Jiuted with black; u recurved tuft of feathers on the rump; iris dark-brown. /VHw/e. —With the wing exactly as on the male; the under parts plain whitlsh- ochrey, each feather obscurely blotclied with ; head and neck similar, spotted and streaked with dusky; the chiu and throat above unspotted; up|jer parts dark- brown, the feathers broadly edged and banded with reddish-browu, parallel with the cireumfereiice. Length of male, tweiity-tliree inches; wing, eleven; tarsus, one and seventy one- hundrcdths; couuuissure of bill, two and fifty one-liundredths inches. The Mallard is found in New England only as a wan- derer, and then only in the western sections in the spring and autumn seasons; a few are seen in the waters of Lake Champlain, and oc- ^. -^-^"'^^-^' ; casionally a small flock is found in the Connecticut River. This is th
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