. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . eet red. Length, ; Wing, 11; Tarsus, 2 ; Bill, Adult female: Upper throat white ; breast and head rufous brown; belly white ; speculumwhite; feet orange. Length, ; Wing, ; Tarsus, ; Bill, 2. The distance from the nostril to the tip of the bill is less than inches in this species, andthe female may be distinguished from the next species, Red-breasted Merganser, by this KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 213 character, as the Red-breasted Merganser has a distance
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . eet red. Length, ; Wing, 11; Tarsus, 2 ; Bill, Adult female: Upper throat white ; breast and head rufous brown; belly white ; speculumwhite; feet orange. Length, ; Wing, ; Tarsus, ; Bill, 2. The distance from the nostril to the tip of the bill is less than inches in this species, andthe female may be distinguished from the next species, Red-breasted Merganser, by this KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 213 character, as the Red-breasted Merganser has a distance from the nostril to the tip of the bill ofmore than inches. This species ranges throughout North America and is not uncommon onthe Atlantic coast from Maine to Georgia. Occasionally a specimenwanders as far south as Florida, although it is not common in that have on one occasion killed a specimen near the head of Indian nest is composed of a little grass or leaves on a ledge or occasionallyin a hole in a tree. The eggs are from seven to ten, of a pale yellow buff Merganser serrator (male.) MERGANSER SERRATOR (/./««.).Red°breasted Merganser. Adtilt male: Head and throat black tinged with greenish; a white ring around the necknot always well marked ; breast rufous streaked with black ; lower breast and belly white;the sides and rump delicately pencilled with black. Distance from nostril to tip of bill morethan 0. Length, 23; Wing, 9; Tarsus, ; Bill, Female and young male: Head brownish ; throat pale buff; back gray; under parts of thebody are white and speculum is white. Length, 21 ; Wing, ; Tarsus, ; Bill, Inhabits the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere, ranging in wintersouthward throughout the United States to Cuba. It is a common bird on 214 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. the Atlantic coast and is the common Shelldrake of Florida ; some wintersthey are abundant. This and the Hooded Mergjanser are the two
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