. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . ; \\ing. ii : Tarsus. 2 ; liill, Adult female: Upper throat white ; breast and head rufous brown: l)elly white : speculumwhite; feet orange. Length, ; Wing, : Tarsus, : Bill. 2. The distance from the nostril to the tip of the bill is less than inches in this species, andthe female may lie distinguished from the next species, vi^., Red-breasted Merganser, by this KEY TO Tiih: w.:i< kirds of i-lokida. 21 character, as the Ked-brcastcd Meroanser has a distance from th
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . ; \\ing. ii : Tarsus. 2 ; liill, Adult female: Upper throat white ; breast and head rufous brown: l)elly white : speculumwhite; feet orange. Length, ; Wing, : Tarsus, : Bill. 2. The distance from the nostril to the tip of the bill is less than inches in this species, andthe female may lie distinguished from the next species, vi^., Red-breasted Merganser, by this KEY TO Tiih: w.:i< kirds of i-lokida. 21 character, as the Ked-brcastcd Meroanser has a distance from the nostril lo tlie tip of tlie hill ofmore than inches. This species ranges throuohout North America and is not uncommon onthe Athmtic coast from Maine to Georiria. Occasionally a specimenwanders as far south as Florida, althouoh it is not connnon in that liave on one occasion killed a specimen near tlie head of Indian nest is composed of a litde (,n-ass or leaves on a ledge or occasionallyin a hole in a tree. The eggs are from seven to ten, of a pale yellow hutf T-*;^«^\ > Merganser (male.) MERGANSER SERRATOR (//////).Red=breasted Merganser. jmr/c- ■ Head and throat black tin-ed with -reenisli: a white ring- around the necknot always well marked : breast rufous streaked with black ; lower breast and belly white :the sidesand rump delicately pencilled with black. Distance from nostril to tip ol bdl more than Length, 23; Wing. 9; Tarsus, : Bill, F,ma/ca;idyon,ig;m7/c: Head brownish : throat pale buff: back gray : under parts of thebody are white and speculum is white. Length. 21 : Wing, ; Tarsus. ; 15111, Inhabits the northern part of the Northern Hemispliere, ranging in wintersouthward throughout the United States to Cuba. It is a common bird on 214 KEY TO THE ^VATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. the Atlantic coast and is the common Shelldrake of Florida ; some wintersthe}^ are ahundant. This and the Hooded
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