. Names and portraits of birds which interest gunners, with descriptions in languages understanded of the people;. Game and game-birds; Birds. 50 BIRD NAMES. [No: 16. two to two and a quarter inches; its greatest width thirteen sixteenths to fourteen sixteenths of an inch. Legs bluish gray. Female. Bill similar to drake's, but darker in color; head ,"and upper neck drab or grayish brown; immediately about bill and throat lighter grayish buff. Lower regions of neck, upper -parts of body, and the sides slaty brown; edges of the feathers paler, the pale edging more noticeable about
. Names and portraits of birds which interest gunners, with descriptions in languages understanded of the people;. Game and game-birds; Birds. 50 BIRD NAMES. [No: 16. two to two and a quarter inches; its greatest width thirteen sixteenths to fourteen sixteenths of an inch. Legs bluish gray. Female. Bill similar to drake's, but darker in color; head ,"and upper neck drab or grayish brown; immediately about bill and throat lighter grayish buff. Lower regions of neck, upper -parts of body, and the sides slaty brown; edges of the feathers paler, the pale edging more noticeable about lower neck region and sides. No zigzag markings anywhere (or with barest suggestion of them). Wing much as in male. Under. No. 16. Female. parts white, shading darker and brownish gray behind. Legs as in male. Length twenty to twenty-one inches: extent about thirty- three inches. Eange, North America in general, breeding from Maine and California northward. RED-HEAD, or RED-HEADED DUCK: very generally known as such in the books, and by gunners. It has been also called the POCHARD from its resemblance to European Pochard (with which it was at one time considered identical), and more cor- rectly the AMERICAN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Trumbull, Gurdon, 1841-1903. New York, Harper
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