. The birds of eastern North America : known to occur east of the ninetieth meridian. Birds -- North America. FAMILY , GEESE, AND SWANS. 73 Speculum, gray ; head and neck, brownish; chin and anterior portion of lores, brownish white or whitish (female) ; resembles female Red-head, but is smaller. Aijthijn ciillnrix. Ring=necked Duck. See No. 107. A patch of white or grayish white on the head, including the eye; no speculum; under tail coverts, white; adult males have the tail feathers long and pointed. Claw nit a hyemalis. Old Squaw. Long=tailed Duck. See No. 111. Section 2. Be
. The birds of eastern North America : known to occur east of the ninetieth meridian. Birds -- North America. FAMILY , GEESE, AND SWANS. 73 Speculum, gray ; head and neck, brownish; chin and anterior portion of lores, brownish white or whitish (female) ; resembles female Red-head, but is smaller. Aijthijn ciillnrix. Ring=necked Duck. See No. 107. A patch of white or grayish white on the head, including the eye; no speculum; under tail coverts, white; adult males have the tail feathers long and pointed. Claw nit a hyemalis. Old Squaw. Long=tailed Duck. See No. 111. Section 2. Belly, white, sometimes tinged on lower part with dusky or gray; no white or grayish white on Head, brown; a distinct wing baud of white (female). Glaucionetta clanynla amrrii-inia. Golden Eye. See No, 108. Glaucionetta elangula Americana. Head, black, glossed with green; speculum, white; back, grayish white, finely lined with black (male). Ay thy a mania. Greater Scaup Duck. Mine hill or Black head. See No. 105. Head, black, glossed with purple, finely lined with black; speculum, white; back, grayish white, smaller than the preceding species, but resembles it closely (male). Aij/lujn njtiiiix. Lesser Scaup Duck. Blue bill or Black-head. See No. 106. Head, black, with violet or bluish gloss, a spot of white on the chin; speculum, gray; back, dull black (male). A>/th>ia <-»ll<iri*. Ring=necked Duck. See No. 107. Section 3. Belly, not white. Plumage, variously marked with white, slate-color, and chestnut; speculum, bluish; top of head and wing coverts, not white (male). His1ri<nti*tri<»iiriis histriouicns. Harlequin Duck. See No. 112. Top of head, white; wing coverts, white; rump, bluish black. Enicnnctta stellcri. Stellers' Duck. See No. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original w
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