. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian ... Birds. FAMILY :. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SAVANS. 73 Speculum, gray ; liead and neck, hiowuish; chin ami anterior portion of lores, hrowiiisli white or whitish (female); resenihles female IJed-head, l)iit is smaller. Aiitlnjd nillin-is. Ring=necked Duck. See \o. 107. A patch of white or grayish white on the head, including the eye; no speculum; under tail coverts, wliite; adult males have the tail feathers loiii;- and poiiittMl. Clangnhc hyemalis. Old Squaw. Long^tailed Duck. See No. 111. Section 2. Belly,
. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian ... Birds. FAMILY :. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SAVANS. 73 Speculum, gray ; liead and neck, hiowuish; chin ami anterior portion of lores, hrowiiisli white or whitish (female); resenihles female IJed-head, l)iit is smaller. Aiitlnjd nillin-is. Ring=necked Duck. See \o. 107. A patch of white or grayish white on the head, including the eye; no speculum; under tail coverts, wliite; adult males have the tail feathers loiii;- and poiiittMl. Clangnhc hyemalis. Old Squaw. Long^tailed Duck. See No. 111. Section 2. Belly, white, sometimes tinged on lower part with dusky or gray; no white or grayish white on head. Head, l)rowu; u wing band of white (female). Glmicionetta dangula americana. Golden Eye. See No. 108. Glaucionetta clangula americana. Head, black, glossed with green; speculum, white; liack, <;ia\ ish white, finely lined witli lilack (male). Aijthya marila. Greater Scaup Duck. Blue^biil or Black-head. See No. 105. Head, black, glossed with purple, finely lined with black; speculum, white; back, grayish white, smaller than the preceding species, but resemble^ il cbxely (male). Aiithyn nffinh. Lesser Scaup Duck. Blue=bill or Black=head. See Xo. 106. Head, black, with violet or bluish gloss, a spot of white on the chin; speculum, gray; back, dull black (male). Aythtja coUaris. Ring=necked Duck. See No. Section 3. Belly, not white. Plumage, variously marked with white, slate-color, and chestnut; speculum, bluish ; top of head and wing coverts, not white (male). Histrioiiims h/.^trirniims. Harlequin Duck. See No. 11-2. Top of liead and wing coverts, not white; plumage, dull brown, mottled on the under- parts (female). HistrionicKS histrionicns. Harlequin Duck. See No. 112. Top of head, white; wing coverts, white; rump, bluish bbn^k. Enicont'tta stpUcri. Stellers' Duck. See No. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been d
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