. The American sportsman: . ANAS ALBEOLA. BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK, OR BUTTER-BALL. t^:^V HIS little duck is more commonly known as the butter-box, or butter-ball, from thecircumstance of its fat, plump little is one of the very first ducks that comesfrom the North. Its flesh is rather fishyat times; but we have shot them on theChesapeake and Delaware of very goodflavor. It breeds in the North, flies with.^s=.^ift>!nj^^. J great velocity, and dives with considerable facility; and, when on the wing, utters aquick, guttural note—quack ! quack! quack!. DESCRIPTION. The bufiel-headed duc
. The American sportsman: . ANAS ALBEOLA. BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK, OR BUTTER-BALL. t^:^V HIS little duck is more commonly known as the butter-box, or butter-ball, from thecircumstance of its fat, plump little is one of the very first ducks that comesfrom the North. Its flesh is rather fishyat times; but we have shot them on theChesapeake and Delaware of very goodflavor. It breeds in the North, flies with.^s=.^ift>!nj^^. J great velocity, and dives with considerable facility; and, when on the wing, utters aquick, guttural note—quack ! quack! quack!. DESCRIPTION. The bufiel-headed duck, or rather, as it has originally been, the bufialo-headed duck, from the disproportionate size of its head, is fourteen inches long and twenty-three inches in extent; the bill is short, and of a light blue or leaden color; the plumage of the head and half of the neck is thick, long, and velvety, projecting366 BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK, OR BUTTER-BALL. 367 greatly over the lower part of the neck ; this plumage on the fore-head and nape is rich glossy green, changing into a shining purpleon the crown and sides of the neck ; from the eyes backward passesa broad band of pure white; iris of the eye dark; back, wings,and part of the scapulars, black ; rest of the scapulars, lateral bandalong the wing, and whole breast, snowy white; belly, vent, andtaii-coverts, dusky white; tail pointed, and of a hoary color. The female is considerably less than the male, and entirelydestitute of the tumid plumage of the head: the head, neck, andupper parts of the body and wings
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