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BIRD NAMES. 



[No. 19. 



brownish ; the front of head about base of bill whitish, this face- 

 marking purer white on chin, and mixed more or less Avith 

 brown on forehead. "Wings marked with bluish gray as. in 



No. 19. Female. 



male. Lower surface of body grayish white, freckled with 

 brown or grayish brown, and becoming more uniformly brown 

 behind. 



Leno-th sixteen to eighteen inches ; extent, sav from twenty- 

 five to twenty-seven inches. A much less numerous species than 

 either No. IT or 18. 



Range, Xorth America in general; breeding north of the 

 United States. Though found along the coast, oftener met with 

 in the interior. 



RING-NECKED DUCK: RING-NECKED SCAUP: RING-NECKED 

 BLACK-HEAD: TUFTED-DUCK of "Wilson. 



In the vicinity of Lake St. Clair MARSH BLUE-BILL (see 

 No. 18\ a name given also by Mr. Seton in his Birds of AVestern 

 Manitoba (Auk, April, ISSei. 



At Chicago RING-BILL; and Audubon speaks of hearing 

 the latter name in Kentuckv. 



