. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . ^ PL 24. Tufted Duck (male and female, winter). E60. HARLEQUIN DUCK. 6l Immature drakes show more white than ducks. An immatureduck in December had head and neck mummy brown and anincomplete white collar, mouse-grey shoulders and mottled-greywings, and smoky-grey breast. The bill was brown tinged withyellow, the legs dull yellow, and the irides brown. Male:Length, i8 ins. Wing, 8*25 ins. Tarsus, IS ins. Female :Length, 16 ins. Wing, 775 ins. Tarsus, i4. ins. Buffel-headed Duck. Glaucion albeola (Linn.). Buffel-head, a contracti
. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . ^ PL 24. Tufted Duck (male and female, winter). E60. HARLEQUIN DUCK. 6l Immature drakes show more white than ducks. An immatureduck in December had head and neck mummy brown and anincomplete white collar, mouse-grey shoulders and mottled-greywings, and smoky-grey breast. The bill was brown tinged withyellow, the legs dull yellow, and the irides brown. Male:Length, i8 ins. Wing, 8*25 ins. Tarsus, IS ins. Female :Length, 16 ins. Wing, 775 ins. Tarsus, i4. ins. Buffel-headed Duck. Glaucion albeola (Linn.). Buffel-head, a contraction of buffalo-head, is descriptive ; itconveys the idea of a heavy-maned head like that of theAmerican bison, and this, with a slight stretch of imagina-tion, is what is suggested by the elongated head feathers of theGoldeneyes and their near relatives. The Buffel-head breedsin the north of America and wanders so far south as the WestIndies ; on two or three, and probably more, occasions it hasstrayed to Britain. It is a smaller bird than our Go
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