47. CL.OfGTJLA. 385 



wing, formed by the median wing-coverts, the tips of the greater 

 ones, and by the secondaries, obliquely divided by a black band 

 formed by the base of the greater coverts ; inner secondaries or 

 tertials black with a purple gloss ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries black ; feathers of the flanks broadly edged with black ; sides 

 of the rump black ; sides of the vent and outer under tail-coverts 

 tinged with dark grey ; tail dark brown-grey, with a slight gloss : 

 bill dark plumbeous ; iris rich yellow ; legs and toes yellow, webs 

 dusky. Total length about 20 inches, wing 9-6, tail -i'd, culmen 

 1-45, tarsus 1*55. 



Female. Similar to that of C. (/laucion, but larger, the grey of the 

 chest broader and usually deeper, and the white collar narrower ; 

 greater wing-coverts always (?) distinctly tipped with blackish. 

 Total length 18 inches, wing S-25-8-75. 



Hah. Iceland, occasionally straying to Europe ; Northern Ame- 

 rica from Greenland to Alaska, south in winter to New York, 

 Illinois, Utah, &c. 



a, b, c. S ad. Iceland. Purchased. 



St. 



d. (S ad. sk. Iceland. Prof. A. Newton [P.]. 



e. cJ ad. sk. N. America (H. W. Henshato). Salvin-Godman Coil. 

 /, g. (S ad. et Godbout, Canada, March, July Salvin-Godman Coll. 



pull. sk. [N. A. Comeau). 



h, i, k. S 2 ad. W. side of Rocky Mts. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 



et 2 imm. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. Alkali Lake, W. side of Eocky J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.], 



Mts. 

 m, n. c? ad. sk. Orcas Island, near Vancouver I., Dr. Lyall [P.]. 



April. 

 0^ P- d 2 ^^- Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. January (A. Forrer). 



3. Clangula albeola. 



Little Black and White Duck, Edw. Nat. Hist. B. ii. pi. 100 (1747) 



(Newfoundland). 

 Butfel's Head Duck, Catesb. Carol, i. t. 95 ( c? ) (Carolina) (1754) : 



Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 633, n. 75 (1785). 

 Little Brown Duck, Catesb. Carol, i. t. 98 (2) (1754) ; Lath. Syn. 



iii. 2, p. 5.34 (1785). 

 Anas hyberna, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 349 (1760) (e.r Catesby). 

 Querqueilula ludoviciana, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 461, ]il. xli. f. 1 (1760). 

 Querquedula carolinensis, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 464 (1760). 

 Anas albeola, Linn. S. N. i. p. 199, n. 18 (1766) {ex Edtvards) ; 



Forst. Phil. Tram. Ixii. pp. 383, 416 (1772) ; Gm. S. N. i. 2, 



p. 517, n. 18 (1788); Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 866, n. 86 (1790); 



Boyin. Enc. Meth. i. p. 157, pi. 41. f. 1 (1791) ; Wils. Am. Orn. 



viii. p. 51, pi. 62. ff. 2, 3 (1814) ; Vieill. N. D. v. p. 119 (1816) ; 



Bam. Diet. Sc. Nat. vi. p. 398 (1817); Donovan, Brit. B. x. 



pi. 226 (1819) ; Less. Tr. (TOrn. p. 631 (1831) ; SchUg. Rev. Crit. 



p. cxix (1844); Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 344 (1872). 

 Anas bucephala, Linn. S. N. i. p. 200, n. 21 (cf) (1766) {e.v Catesby, 



t. 95) ; Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 521, n. 21 (1788) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. 

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