. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. Ducks; Geese; Swans; Birds. Ducks having flap or membraneous lobe on hind toe. Genus AYTHYA Boie. AYTHYA AMERICANA {Eyf.). Red-head Duck. Adult male : Head and neck, brownish chestnut; lower neck and uiiper brcust, lilackish ; lj;u-k, apparently grayisli, beinj;-wliite peneilled Avith tine, wavy lines of black; ^peeuluni, grayisli; upper feathers edged with blaek, the rest narrowly tipped witli white. Leugtli, -21: wing. ; tarsus, : liill. ).. A\"tli\ ;i iiiiR
. How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color. Ducks; Geese; Swans; Birds. Ducks having flap or membraneous lobe on hind toe. Genus AYTHYA Boie. AYTHYA AMERICANA {Eyf.). Red-head Duck. Adult male : Head and neck, brownish chestnut; lower neck and uiiper brcust, lilackish ; lj;u-k, apparently grayisli, beinj;-wliite peneilled Avith tine, wavy lines of black; ^peeuluni, grayisli; upper feathers edged with blaek, the rest narrowly tipped witli white. Leugtli, -21: wing. ; tarsus, : liill. ).. A\"tli\ ;i iiiiR'ri<- (Female.) Adult ffilial e: Bill, bhiisli. showing an indistinct bar near tlie end: head and neck, re<ldish brown, palest on the sides of tlie head, becoming ashy on the sides ot the head; upper throat, white; breast and sides, brownisli; belly, wliite; under tail coverts and lower belly, sometimes washed witli pale brownisli. Length, ; wing, ; tarsus, ; bill, The Red-head is nither a Western species, beinu' common in the interior, and ))reeding from Minnesota, northward. It is very abundant from Virginia. 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 Cory, Charles B. (Charles Barney), 1857-1921. Boston, For sale by Little, Brown & Co.
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