. The water birds of North America . The rich chestnut-red of the neck is destitute of the metallicreddish-purple gloss, while it involves the en-tire neck, even tinging the anterior part of the back, instead of being confined to about the ...-^-- upper half of the neck ; the wing-coverts arealso much lighter colored, and, in most speci-mens, very distinctly veriniculated with white,instead of nearly plain slaty gray. In general ^jL,size the European species is decidedly infe-rior ; the tarsus is considerably shorter, whilethe middle toe is decidedly longer. The female of the Red-head resemble
. The water birds of North America . The rich chestnut-red of the neck is destitute of the metallicreddish-purple gloss, while it involves the en-tire neck, even tinging the anterior part of the back, instead of being confined to about the ...-^-- upper half of the neck ; the wing-coverts arealso much lighter colored, and, in most speci-mens, very distinctly veriniculated with white,instead of nearly plain slaty gray. In general ^jL,size the European species is decidedly infe-rior ; the tarsus is considerably shorter, whilethe middle toe is decidedly longer. The female of the Red-head resembles thatof the Ring-neck, or Ring-billed Black-head(Fuliz collaris), so closely as to be distin-guished with difficulty, except on direct com-parison. The latter has all the colors darker,however, the fore part of the head and thethroat more decidedly white, and the bill muchshorter and broader. The different propor-tions, however, afford the surest means of dis-tinguishing them, the two species comparingabout as follows : — iE. americana. Wing, inches ; culmen, ; greatest width of bill, .85, least width, .75 ; tarsus, ; middle toe, collaris. Wing, inches ; culmen, ; greatest width of bill, .85, least width, .65 ; tarsus, ; middle toe, The Red-head Duck has a distribution more or less general throughout NorthAmerica, breeding in high northern latitudes down to about 44°, and frequenting inthe winter the southern portions of the continent as far as Mexico. It is found bothon the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. It was met with on the western coast id Mexico, near Mazatlan, by Colonel Gray-son, and in Northeastern Mexico and Southern Texas by Mr. Dresser. It is given asoccurring on the Pacific coast at Vancouver Island by Mr. E. Browne. On the coastof California, according to Dr. Cooper, the Red-head is not so common as the Canvas-back, but it has been obtained from San Francisco to San Diego, and throughout theinterior in the -
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