. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 292 ANATID^, DUCKS. GEN. 266-8. â V/ o band, and a black chin-patch and eye-ring; collar round neck, and upper parts, lustrous velvety black, the lengthened curly scapulars and tertiaries silvery-white on the inner webs, the lesser and middle wing coverts white, the greater coverts and secondaries white-tipped, enclosing the violet speculum; un
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 292 ANATID^, DUCKS. GEN. 266-8. â V/ o band, and a black chin-patch and eye-ring; collar round neck, and upper parts, lustrous velvety black, the lengthened curly scapulars and tertiaries silvery-white on the inner webs, the lesser and middle wing coverts white, the greater coverts and secondaries white-tipped, enclosing the violet speculum; under parts rich reddish-brown, blackening on the belly and crissum, fading through buff to white on the breast and sides, where there are black spots. ? rcddish-hrown, blackening below, varied with darker on the head, neck and fore parts; tips of greater coverts and secondaries alone white, enclosing the speculum. Length about 18; wing 8. Northwest _ Coast. NuTT.,ii,451; ^^^-^â °^-~^fe?°"-^^-' AuD.,vi,368,; --__^^g^~-=- Bd., 801. STELLERII. ^ , ^^ ** Bill without frontal ^^^r^^ processes, feathered to a ^ the nostrils. {Lampro- S^ _ netta.) J^ Zr- Spectacled Eider. ^ $ black or blackish, the throat, most of neck, fore back, wing coverts, scapulars, ter- tials and ilank-patch, white ; nape and occi- put green ; a whitish space round eye, bounded by black ; 9 said to be brown, varied with darker, the chin and throat whitish, the eye patch obscurely indicated ; after the summer moult the <J is said to be like the 9 . Length about 2 feet. Northwest Coast, common about St. Michaels. Dall, Trans. Chicago Acad, i, 299 ; Elliot, pi. 47 ; Bd., 803. fischekii. *** Bill with frontal processes, not feathered to the nostrils. {Somateria.) Uider Duck. Bill with long club-shaped processes extending in a line with the culmen upon the sides of the forehead, divided bj' a broad feathered interspace. ^ in breeding attire white, creamy-tinted on breast and washed with green on
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