. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. fiWi and posteriorly, and fading gradually into creamy buff on the breast ; remaining lower parts wliitc Wings brownish gray, the coverts and tertials bordered with paler; rump brownisli gray, ujiiicr tail-coverts pure white. Adult mak in numiner: .'^midler and much duller than the female, with the beautiful markings of the latter but faintly indicated. Adult and ijoumj in wintir : Aliove, cnn- tinuous light ash-gray ; ui)per tail-coverts, superciliary stripe, and lower parts white, the juguhiia an
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. fiWi and posteriorly, and fading gradually into creamy buff on the breast ; remaining lower parts wliitc Wings brownish gray, the coverts and tertials bordered with paler; rump brownisli gray, ujiiicr tail-coverts pure white. Adult mak in numiner: .'^midler and much duller than the female, with the beautiful markings of the latter but faintly indicated. Adult and ijoumj in wintir : Aliove, cnn- tinuous light ash-gray ; ui)per tail-coverts, superciliary stripe, and lower parts white, the juguhiia and sides of breast tinged faintly with ])ale asliy. ynunij, Jimt ji/innitiji : Crown, back, and scapu- lars blackish dusky, the feathers bordered conspicuously with bud". U})per tail-coverts, superciliiiiN stripe, and lower parts white, the neck tinged with buff. Dnvnij ijounij: Prevailing color briglii tawny fulvous, paler beneath, the abdomen nearly white ; occiput and na])e with a distinct median streak of black, on the former branching laterally into two narrower, somewhat zigzag lines ; lowi r back and nnnp witli three broad black stripes ; Hanks with a black spot, and caudal region crus-cd by a wide subterminal bar of the same. Mule: Wing, (l; culmen, '); tarsus. '); miildle toe, .90. Fenmk: Wing, ; culmen. ; tarsus, ; middle toe, .»0-l.( The habits of this cxclusivt'ly American I'halaro])*', and to some extent its geo- grapliical distribution, liavc oontinncd. until vovy recently, to be impert'ectly ascer- tained. It was known to AVilson by oidy a single specimen, all record of which has been lost. Even .Vndubon apjiears to have met with very few of this si)ecies. ami to have gathered but little information as to its habits. It is now known to be In far more common in the interior than near the coast, to breed in Northern Illinois. Iowa, Wisconsin. Dakota, and Oregon, and thence northward into the British pos- se
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