. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ANATIXiE â THE DUCKS â SPATULA. 627 876, ones dark gray, edged with white. Bill deep black ; iris bright yellow ; legs and ieet beautiful orange-red. Adult female: Wings as in the male, but colors rather duller. Othei-parts grayish brown above, varied with brownish white; brownish white below, the head and neck streaked, the breast, alxlomen, etc., spotted, with grayish brown. Bill brown, mandible or- ange; iris yellow and feet orange- red, as ill the male. Young male: Similar to the adult female,
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ANATIXiE â THE DUCKS â SPATULA. 627 876, ones dark gray, edged with white. Bill deep black ; iris bright yellow ; legs and ieet beautiful orange-red. Adult female: Wings as in the male, but colors rather duller. Othei-parts grayish brown above, varied with brownish white; brownish white below, the head and neck streaked, the breast, alxlomen, etc., spotted, with grayish brown. Bill brown, mandible or- ange; iris yellow and feet orange- red, as ill the male. Young male: Similar to the adult female, but lower parts (always ?) tinged with chestnut. Young female: Similar to the adult, but wing-coverts dull slate, with little, if any, blue tinge, the speculum dusky, with a very faint green reflection, and rather broadly tipped with brownish white. Downy young: Above, grayi:5h brown, with a brownish-white spot on each side of the back, and a cor- responding pair on the rump ; pile- um darker than the back and nape ; head (except pileuni) and entire lower parts pale grayish fulvous, or dirty grayish buffy white, shaded with brownish gray across the jugu- lum ; a narrow stripe of dark brown from the upper angle of tlie base of the bill to the eye, and contin- ued posteriorly about half Avay to the occiput; another similar stripe beneath the last, beginning a little behind the posterior border of the eye, and extending farther back than the one above it. [Described from No. 655C1, Souris R., Dakota, Aug. 10, 1873 ; Dr. E. CouES, U. S. A.] Total length, about inches ; ex- tent, to inches ; wing, ; culnien, ) ; width of bill at end, , at base, .GO ; tarsus, ; middle toe, 1.( Specimens vary considerably in colors : usually the white of the chest and scapulars is nearly '^^â ^^iik''ii^B or (piite immaculate ; but not infrequently y" ^HIIR,\ ll'fl^V thesis portions are more or less sj)otted with The che
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