. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. — THE DUCKS — FULIX. 25 Koskonoiig all the suinmer, and i)erliai)S breed there; they have not, however, been loiiiid doing this, nor have any broods of yoiuig birds been noticed. Eggs of this Duck from the Yukon Kiver (Smithsonian Institution, Nos. 5037 and (iGL'G) are of a pale grayish butt' with a tinge; of olive ; their usual breadth is inches, and their length varies from ) to inches. Fuliz collaris. THE RINO-NECKEO SCAT7F DUCK; BIKO-BILI. Anas collaris, Donovan', Br. Hi
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. — THE DUCKS — FULIX. 25 Koskonoiig all the suinmer, and i)erliai)S breed there; they have not, however, been loiiiid doing this, nor have any broods of yoiuig birds been noticed. Eggs of this Duck from the Yukon Kiver (Smithsonian Institution, Nos. 5037 and (iGL'G) are of a pale grayish butt' with a tinge; of olive ; their usual breadth is inches, and their length varies from ) to inches. Fuliz collaris. THE RINO-NECKEO SCAT7F DUCK; BIKO-BILI. Anas collaris, Donovan', Br. Hiids, VI. 1809, ]il. 147 (England). Fuliijula eolliirU, Bonai'. List B. Eur. 1842, 73. — CouKS, Ke)', 1872, 289; Clieck List, 1873, no. 0(12 ; ed. 1882, no. 722 ; B. X. W. 1874, 574. FillU. collaris, Baikd, B. X. Am. 1858,792; Cat. X, Am. B. 1859, no. ."igo. — Hiwiw. Norn. N. Am. B. 1S81, no. 616. AniiH fHliijula, Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, ^yo, pi. 67, fig. 5 (not of Linn. 1766). Anus (Fuligula) rufilorqms, BoNAl'. .Tour. Pliilad. Acad. IIL 1824, 381. Fi'liijiila riifilorqiifs, Bonak Syno]). 1828, .393. — .Sw. & liiiil. F. B. A. II. 1831, Man. II. 1834, 439. — Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 259, jd. 234 ; .Synop. 1839, 287 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 320, pi. 398. IIab. The whole of North Anu-ricii, south to Guiiteniala and the West ; breeding chiefly in the high north. Accidental in Europe. Sp. (.'har. AJull muk: Head, neck, jugidum, erissuni, and uii])er parts generally, bhick, the head and neck with a faint violet gloss, tlie wing-coverts inclining to slate ; secondaries ("specu- lum ") bluish gniy, darker suliterininally, and very narrowly with white ; primaries slate- gray, the outer quills and ends of the others dusky. A triangular spot of white on the chin, and. F. collaris, male. • more or less collar of chestnut round the lower neck ; and aMomen white, fbruptly define<l anteriorly against the hluc
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