. Feathered game of the Northeast . mussels. 340 FEATHERED GAME THE RING-NECKED DUCK. (Aythya coUaris.) Closely allied to the two last is the Ring-necked Duck. About a medium between themin size and inhabiting the same range of coun-try; breeding from the northern part of theUnited States into the Arctic regions, and intheir winter migrations often traveling to theWest Indies. They build their nests on the ground, lininga shallow hollow with moss and dry grass, andin this lay their complement of eggs, usuallyeight in number, in color a light greenish. Thisspecies is not at all common in New En
. Feathered game of the Northeast . mussels. 340 FEATHERED GAME THE RING-NECKED DUCK. (Aythya coUaris.) Closely allied to the two last is the Ring-necked Duck. About a medium between themin size and inhabiting the same range of coun-try; breeding from the northern part of theUnited States into the Arctic regions, and intheir winter migrations often traveling to theWest Indies. They build their nests on the ground, lininga shallow hollow with moss and dry grass, andin this lay their complement of eggs, usuallyeight in number, in color a light greenish. Thisspecies is not at all common in New Englandand is less numerous throughout the whole ofits range than are the Scaups. I doubt if anaverage of one Ring-necked Duck a year iskilled in the State of Maine. Its markings are as follows: Head and neckof brilliant bluish- or purplish-black, with aslight crest. Around the neck a collar of deeporange brown or chestnut; lower neck and up-per breast blackish. Above blackish, scapularsfaintly waved with gray. Wings dusky brown; k %. o D Q Q Otuz 6 Z THE WHISTLER 341 speculum ashy bluish or grayish. Below mostlywhite; belly and flanks waved with black; cris-sum black. Bill black, edges, base and a beltacross near the tip bluish gray. Feet bluishgray with black webs. Iris yellow. The female has no collar. Where the male isblack she is brownish. Wing and speculum thesame as in the male. The bluish gray color ofthe speculum is the main point of difference be-tween the female of this species and the femalesof the Scaups, whose speculum is white, al-though females of the present species may beslightly browner above and on the flanks. Length of the Ring-necked Duck from sixteento eighteen inches; extent from twenty-eight tothirty inches. THE WHISTLER. GOLDEN-EYED DUCK. (Clangula americana.) This duck is from fifteen to eighteen inchesin length and weighs from two to two and one-half pounds. The head and upper part of theneck are rich, dark green—in some lights al-most black, in othe
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