OLD-SQUAW, LONG-TAILED DUCK. 

 Clangula hy emails (Linn.). 



Male, in winter, with broad strip running from the 

 base of the bill, back, including eye, to about the ear, 

 pale gray; at the ear darkening to black, which fades 

 again to pale gray on the side of the neck ; top and back 

 of head, throat and lower sides of head and upper neck, 

 all about, white; breast, back, upper tail-coverts, wing 

 and long feathers of tail, black, the outer sides of the 

 tail fading to white. The secondaries are reddish- 

 brown ; scapulars, pearl-gray ; under parts, white. 



In the male, in summer, the pale gray line running 

 back from the bill, including the eye and parts of cheek, 

 are as in winter, but the remaining parts of head, neck, 



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