. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America ... . t and abdomen, white. Flanks, white, barred withirregular black lines, more or less distinct. Crissum. dusky,mottled with white ; under tail coverts, black. Tail, , bluish white, nail, black. Legs and feet, light slate orplumbeous. Iris, yellow. Length, about i6 inches; wing, 8; tail,3, tarsus, \^^\ culmen, i^. Adult Female.—Space about base of bill, white. Rest of headand neck, snuff brown. Upper back and breast, amber brown;the feathers, margmed with pale
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America ... . t and abdomen, white. Flanks, white, barred withirregular black lines, more or less distinct. Crissum. dusky,mottled with white ; under tail coverts, black. Tail, , bluish white, nail, black. Legs and feet, light slate orplumbeous. Iris, yellow. Length, about i6 inches; wing, 8; tail,3, tarsus, \^^\ culmen, i^. Adult Female.—Space about base of bill, white. Rest of headand neck, snuff brown. Upper back and breast, amber brown;the feathers, margmed with pale brown on the former, ochrace-ous on the latter. Back and scapulars, fuscous, mottled withwhite. Wings, dark brown; speculum, white. Flanks, darkgrayish brown, tips of feathers, white. Under parts, and upper tail coverts, dark grayish brown. Anal regionand under tail coverts, pale grayish brown, much lighter thanrump and upper tail coverts, and grading into the white of theabdomen. Tail, dark grayish brown, edges of webs, , legs, and feet, colored as in the male. Size similar to thatof the RIXGED-XECK DUCK. V[0\\HERE so abundant as is the last species, theRinged Neck has nevertheless as wide a distributionas the Broad I>ill. and ranges over the whole of NorthAmerica from the Arctic Sea to Guatemala and the WestIndies. It bears a considerable number of names, andis often confounded with the Little Scaup Duck, andin different portions of the United States is called TuftedDuck, Ring Bill. Bastard Broad Bill, Shuffler, Ring-billed Shuffler, Ring-billed Black Head, Ringed-neckBlack Head. Ringed-neck Scaup, and Canard Xoir inLouisiana. It probably has some more names, but theseare about all that I have heard applied to this bird myself,and those most commonly used are the one at the head ofthis article, and Ring Bill. It is not a common species, goes in small flocks, andfrequently is found in company with the Little Scau]),which it resembles very
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