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of the head; outer webs of a few of the secondaries 
same color; lower part of the fore neck ash-color ; 
breast and abdomen soiled white; tail feathers 
rather darker than those of the male. Male fourteen 
and a half inches long; wing six inches and three- 
fourths. Female rather smaller. 
The dipper is quite plentiful everywhere in the 
Northern States, but not much valued. 
OLp WIFE. 
South Southerly, Old Squaw, Long-Tailed Duck. 
Fuligula Glacialis, Linn. 
Specific Character.—Length of bill, from the ter- 
mination of the frontlet feathers to the point, one 
inch and one-sixteenth—the upper mandible rounded ; 
the sides very thin; the bill rather deeply serrated, 
and furnished with a long nail; tail feathers acute. 
In the male the middle pair of tail feathers are 
extended about four inches beyond the next longest, 
which character is wanting with the female. Adult 
male with the bill black at the base; anterior to the 
nostril reddish-orange, with a dusky line margining 
the nail; fore part of the head white, the same color 
passing over the head down the hind neck on the 
back ; eyes dark red; cheeks and loral space dusky- 
white, with a few touches of yellowish-brown 3 a 
black patch on the sides of the neck terminating in 
reddish-brown; fore neck white; breast brownish- 
black, terminating in an oval form on the abdomen 
—the latter white; flanks bluish-white ; primaries 
