. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. dusky suffusion sul)terminally, the tip orange or yellowish ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet deep black. Adult, in winter: Similar, but the black of the head streaked with white. Young, first linimge : Similar to the adult, but with the foUowing differences : Pileum (including occiput and iilHn'r two thirds of lores) grayish white, thickly streaked with dull black ; side of head with a uiiil'onu dull black bar, beginning before and b(!neath the eye and extending back over upper por- tiiiu of auric
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. dusky suffusion sul)terminally, the tip orange or yellowish ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet deep black. Adult, in winter: Similar, but the black of the head streaked with white. Young, first linimge : Similar to the adult, but with the foUowing differences : Pileum (including occiput and iilHn'r two thirds of lores) grayish white, thickly streaked with dull black ; side of head with a uiiil'onu dull black bar, beginning before and b(!neath the eye and extending back over upper por- tiiiu of auriculars ; lower portion of lores and auriculars grayish white, mottled with darker gray- ish. Mantle pale pearl-gray, sparsely marked with irregular spots, mostly inclining to crescentic iir V-sliaped form, of brownish dusky, the wing-coverts, however, nearly immaculate ; the markings largest on longer scapulars and terminal portion of tertials ; primaries hoary gray, with white slial'ts, the shorter ones margined with Avhite ; rump and upper tail-coverts immaculate pearly white ; rectrices hoary gray, distinctly sjiotted with blackish toward Rest of plumage plain white. Rill dull orange (in dried akin), dusky subterminally ; feet lirownish (in skin). (No. 93033, 9 , Warsaw, 111., Sept. 21,1883 ; K. Worthen.) Dou-nij young: Above, grayish white, the down of the head dusky grayish at the ; Irnck and rump finely and mottled with VOL. n. — 30 ''•^^ ^. 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 Baird, Spencer F. , 1823-1887; Brewer, T. M. (Thomas Mayo), 1814-1880. Boston : Little, Brown
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