. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 12 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. are marked with a central stripe of deep fulvous, falling gracefully over the sides of the cri«suni. Tertials and posterior scapulars intense black, with rich velvety reflections of blue, green, and purple (chiefly the first), in certain lights ; the longest tertial tipped with a wide bar of white, the next black to the end, the tliird much shorter, much narrower tluui the rest, pointed, and of a. dull greenish-bronze color ; * middle and greater wing-coverts s
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 12 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. are marked with a central stripe of deep fulvous, falling gracefully over the sides of the cri«suni. Tertials and posterior scapulars intense black, with rich velvety reflections of blue, green, and purple (chiefly the first), in certain lights ; the longest tertial tipped with a wide bar of white, the next black to the end, the tliird much shorter, much narrower tluui the rest, pointed, and of a. dull greenish-bronze color ; * middle and greater wing-coverts steel-blue, naiTowly tipped with black; secondaries (" speculum ") purplish steel-blue, narrowly tipped with white, and with a narrow sub- terminal black bar ; primary coverts slate-color ; primaries with the exposed ends of the inner webs steel-blue, the ends of the outer webs grayish or glaucous-white, becoming slate-color basally ; lining of the wing spotted with slate-color and white. Sagittate longitudinal space on the culmen and terminal "nail" of the bill deep pnli-hed black ; an oblong space of milk-white from nostril to the "nail;" a line or border of gamboge-yellow following tlie basal outUne of the bill; rest of bill dark purplish red, deepening into scarlet just behind the nostril. Iris bright orange-red; eye- lids deep vermilion ; li^gs and feet dull chrome-yellow, the webs and joints dusky.* Total length, about 19.()0 inches ; extent, 29.(X); wing, ; culmen, ; tarsus, ; middle toe, Adult fenuile: Feathei's bordering the base of the bill all round, a space on side of the head surrounding the eyes and extending back in a point toward the occiput, chin, and whole throat white; remainder of the head plumbeous-gray, the crown and slight occipital crest glossed with metallic green ; jugulum brownish, the feathers marked cen- trally with fulvous-bufl^, those toward the breast tipped with white ; remaining lower par
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