. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 196 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. mostly edged pale brownish-gray or buffy; top of head and nape dark and usually very slightly marked with lighter color; sides of head and neck pale brownish-gray or buffy with fine dark streaking, a dark line along whole side of head through eye; throat and chin pale brownish-gray or buffy, usually unmarked; wing-coverts dusky-gray, the lesser with lighter edges, the greater tipped black, forming a black front edge to deep purplish-blue or violet speculum or wing-patch (changeable iridescence may
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. 196 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. mostly edged pale brownish-gray or buffy; top of head and nape dark and usually very slightly marked with lighter color; sides of head and neck pale brownish-gray or buffy with fine dark streaking, a dark line along whole side of head through eye; throat and chin pale brownish-gray or buffy, usually unmarked; wing-coverts dusky-gray, the lesser with lighter edges, the greater tipped black, forming a black front edge to deep purplish-blue or violet speculum or wing-patch (changeable iridescence may show green and rusty-red) which is bordered both before and behind with black, sometimes with a narrow white hind border (probably in fully adult males); primaries and tail blackish; iris dark brown; bill and feet variable in color; bill usually olive, dusky-olive or olive-green in female and yellowish-green, greenish- yellow or "dusky-yellow" in male, often marked blackish (sometimes greenish-black on ridge); nail dark; legs and feet greenish or olivaceous-brown, varying to reddish-brown or orange-red (but not coral-red), very variable. Young: Similar to adults, but bill and feet darker or duller in color, tail feathers worn at tips and under plumage having a more striped appearance. Downy young: Resembling young Mallard, but usually a little darker brown above; top of head dark brown to brownish-black with yellowish tinge on forehead; chin and throat brownish-white or pale yellowish-brown; stripe through eye dark brown to brownish-black above which runs a light stripe; variable; some young have a second dark stripe from gape to ear, others have large dark patch back of eye, others a dark patch in ear-region; hind border of wing, a spot on each side of back behind wing and another spot on each side of rump brownish-white; fore neck pale yellowish-brown; below usually yellowish or whitish, though sometimes darker or dusky. Measurements. — Length to in.;
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