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shading on fore-breast and sides to gray or grayish brown ; spot 

 on side of head and wing-mark white. Lower parts white, 

 though with some dusky shading about the legs and back of 



Ko. 24. Female 



them. Bill more dusky than in male. Legs bluish gray with 

 lavender tinge, the webs dusky. 



Length twelve and three quarters to fifteen inches ; extent 

 twenty-two to twenty-five inches. 



This is a common species, visiting most parts of the country 

 during winter, and the full-dressed drake is one of our most 

 beautiful birds. 



BUFFLE-HEAD, or BUFFEL'S HEAD DUCK as Catesby gives 

 it (Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, etc., 1731): BUFFLE DUCK: 

 BUFFALO -HEADED DUCK: LITTLE BROWN DUCK, the female 

 being described under this latter title in another part of Cates- 

 by's work : SPIRIT, or SPIRIT-DUCK: Edwards, in Xat. Hist. Birds, 

 Part II., 171:7, describes the drake as LITTLE BLACK AND WHITE 

 DUCK, and speaks of its being known to Newfoundland fisher- 

 men as '' Spirit :" CONJURING-DUCK, see Conjuring and Spirit 

 Duck, No. 23. 



Yery generally known from Eastport, Me., to Falmouth, 

 Mass., as DIPPER ; * though at certain points along this coast it 



* This and other names mentioned farther along are considerably mixed 



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