. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America ... . pace about the eye, grayish white. Rest ofhead, neck, and lower parts, white. Jugulum, brown. Upperparts, dark brown; the scapulars, wing coverts, outer web of 194 WATER FOWL. secondaries and feathers of the rump, edged with pale raw umberInown, sometimes with ashy. Tail, grayish brown, edges offeathers, ashy; central pair not elongated. YoiDig.—Similar to female, but the head and upper parts,darker and without the light border to the feathers of the , gr
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America ... . pace about the eye, grayish white. Rest ofhead, neck, and lower parts, white. Jugulum, brown. Upperparts, dark brown; the scapulars, wing coverts, outer web of 194 WATER FOWL. secondaries and feathers of the rump, edged with pale raw umberInown, sometimes with ashy. Tail, grayish brown, edges offeathers, ashy; central pair not elongated. YoiDig.—Similar to female, but the head and upper parts,darker and without the light border to the feathers of the , grayish brown, and the light patch about the eye smallerand rather indistinct; upper part of breast, brownish black, withgray tips to the feathers, graduating into the pale gray of thelower breast. Under parts, pure white. Feathers of the tail,grayish brown, with white margins. In this stage of plumage,this bird is very somber and unattractive. Doivny Young.—Head and upper parts, hair brown. Grayishwhite markings near eye; dusky stripe from corner of mouth toback of head. Under parts, white; dark brown band HARLEQUIN DUCK. AS fantastically decorated with various stripes as is theface of the Harlequin marked for the pantomime,this bird must rank as one of our beautiful species ofDucks. It is a native of the northern portions of boththe New and Old World, and in the Eastern Hemispheregoes to Japan. In North America it ranges from theArctic regions southward to the middle States and Cali-fornia, and breeds in the West from the Rocky and SierraNevada Mountains, and in the East from Newfound-land, northward. It cannot be said to be a commonspecies anywhere, and few sportsmen have ever seen it inlife. It is a solitary bird, except under especial circum-stances, and goes either alone or in pairs, and haunts themost retired spots along the mountain streams, wherethe Ouzel delights to sport itself in the running water,or under the sparkling curtain of the foaming cascad
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