Birds of Canada. 99 
F.. affintis —The Little Black-head Duck. 
This pretty and well known bird sometimes 
breeds in Canada. It is often called “ Blue-bill 
Coot” by our sportsmen. Head, neck, shoulders, 
lower part of back and tail, black ; belly, sides, 
and inner wing surfaces, pure white; wings, 
blackish, with purple reflections. 
Aythya americana.—The Red-head Duck. 
This fine duck is generally very abundant in 
Canada, It breeds here..:Head:and neck, for 
more than half its length, brownish red; rest of 
neck and body anterior to the shoulders and 
lower part of the back, black ; beneath, white. 
A. vallisnertia.—The Canvass-back Duck. 
This much esteemed duck is becoming quite 
rare in Ontario, where it was, a few years since, 
abundant. This duck is twenty-three or twenty- 
four inches long; beak, large and black; the 
head and part of the neck, of a rich glossy red- 
dish-chestnut, ending in a broad span of black 
that covers the upper part of the breast; back, 
scapulas, lower part of the breast, and belly, 
white; tail, short and pointed; legs and feet, 
pale ash. Breeds in northern Canada. 
