. . isting on sea clams, sea cucumbers (Pentacta frondosa), and very little else. Fig. 10 gives a very inadequate idea of the peculiar head of the male and no idea whatever of its beautiful and delicate coloring. The raised fron-tal processes at the base ofthe bill, which adorn thehead, develop immensely inthe breeding season, bulginghigh above the rest of thebill. These processes aresoft, and are supported upona mass of fatty shrink and becomemore depressed in winter, Fig. 10. —Male. ^ . when the general formationof t
. . isting on sea clams, sea cucumbers (Pentacta frondosa), and very little else. Fig. 10 gives a very inadequate idea of the peculiar head of the male and no idea whatever of its beautiful and delicate coloring. The raised fron-tal processes at the base ofthe bill, which adorn thehead, develop immensely inthe breeding season, bulginghigh above the rest of thebill. These processes aresoft, and are supported upona mass of fatty shrink and becomemore depressed in winter, Fig. 10. —Male. ^ . when the general formationof the beak is not much different from that of other female, however, does not resemble the male, and is noteasily distinguished in the field from that of the AmericanEider. When in hand, the general resemblance of the bill andthe head feathering to that of the male may be noted. As themales do not migrate so far south as do the females and young,it is not improbable that the latter are less rare in this latitudethan they are generally believed to BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 153 SCOTER (Oidemia americana). Common or local names: American Scoter; Black Coot; Butter-bill; Black Butter-bill; Yellowbill; Butter-nose; Copper-nose; Copper-bill; Pumpkin-blossom Coot;Whistling Coot; Little Graj^ Coot; Smutty Coot; Fizzy; Broad-billed Coot.
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