2 28 WATER FOWL. 



Adult Feina/e. — Head and neck, pale rufous brown, streaked 

 with narrow black lines; upper parts of head, darkest. Rest of 

 plumage, brownish buff, or chestnut brown, on the upper parts 

 and breast, barred with black; the under parts below the breast, 

 grayish brown, with dusky nebulous bars. Wing like the back, 

 the white tips of the secondaries forming two bars across the 

 wing. Primaries and tail, blackish brown. Bill, legs, and feet, 

 like those of the male, perhaps slightly darker. Size, about the 

 same. 



Young-. — Resembles the female, but the margins of the feathers 

 are rusty brown, and the white wing bars are indistinct. Males 

 have the sides of the head blackish. 



Downy Young. — Crown of head, lores, and sides of face, dark 

 brown; upper parts brown tinged with fulvous on upper part of 

 back. Line over the eye and on each side of chin, white; the 

 latter making a V-shaped mark. Under parts, pale brown, with 

 center of breast and abdomen, white. 



