. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . n sides. Adultmale in summer: sooty, ex-cept for white belly, ashgray face, and white eye-lids ; back and scapularsstreaked with female in winter : tail not lengthened ; head, >- neck, and under parts l i- 77 mainly white; chest gray-ish ; crown dusky, rest of upper parts dusky brown, the scapulars bor-dered with lighter Ijrown. Adult female in summer: head and neckgrayish brown, with whitish spaces around eye and on .side of : simi
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . n sides. Adultmale in summer: sooty, ex-cept for white belly, ashgray face, and white eye-lids ; back and scapularsstreaked with female in winter : tail not lengthened ; head, >- neck, and under parts l i- 77 mainly white; chest gray-ish ; crown dusky, rest of upper parts dusky brown, the scapulars bor-dered with lighter Ijrown. Adult female in summer: head and neckgrayish brown, with whitish spaces around eye and on .side of : similar to female in summer. Male : length ].00, )(), middle tail , bill Female: length 15-1(5,wing 8-9, tail 8. Distribution. — Northern part of northern hemis])here ; south in winternearly across the United States ; breeding from Labrador to Nest. —I^sually on the grassy bank of a pond or stream, nuide of grassand lined with down, t^gys : 5 to 9. The old-squaw, or long-tailed duck, is nuunlv a bird of the arcticcoasts, migrating south into the northern United States in GENUS HISTRIONICUS. 165. Histrionicus histrionicus (Linn.). Dick. A .small duck with moderate crest, short bill, and long sharp tail.
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