FAMILY AXATID.T:. DUCKS, GEESB, AND SWANS. 



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Section 4. Hind toe, with well defined membraneous lobe 

 or flap ; belly, not white ; no white on head. 



Axilhir.s, brown; secondaries, white, forming a white wing 

 patdi ; upper parts, dark brown; underparts, sometimes brown, 

 sometimes grayish (female). 



Oidcmia dci/landi. White=winged Scoter. 

 White=winged Coot. 

 See No. 120. 



* Group 5. Wing, 10 to 14 inches long. 



Section 1. Mind toe, with well defined membraneous lobe 

 or flap ; head, with more or less white, or grayish 

 white; belly, black. 



General plumage, black; speculum, white; spot umltr 

 eye, wliite; axillais, blaek; bill, orange at base (male). 



Oidemia'derjlandi. White=winged Scoter. 

 White=winged Coot. 



Set? No. \-l{). Oi.leiniu deglandi. 



General plumage, black; head, black, with patch of white on crown and napi': no 

 white on wing; axillars. l)lack; bill, orange, black, and white (male). 



Oidemia pcrspicillata. Surf Scoter. Skunk=head Coot. 



See No. 1-21. 



Dri'r^.-ier's Kidi-r Duck. 

 Soiiiali'riji ilrCHrtiTi. 



Nortlicrn KiMcr Duck. 

 Soinatcria hore.'illsi. 



Top of head, black, dividid on iiown; more or less green on head ; throat, white; 

 axillai<. wliiti': liill, cuhni'ii. divided .ind loiindi'il at liase ^mal»■). (Set- cut id' \>\]\.^ 



SiDtKiteriii dressrri. American FEider Duck. 

 See No. 116. 



* For illrortion« for iiifaHiirfiiuMil, pec jmgo !(. 



