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body both above and below lighter than in the 

 redhead. Iris red; feet grayish blue. 



The female's head is colored a dingy brown. 

 She is everywhere duller in tone and plainer in 

 dress than is her lord. She resembles in a 

 marked degree the female redhead, but may at 

 once be distinguished, if there is any doubt as 

 to identity, by the shape and color of her bill 

 and her red-brown iris, which is not so decid- 

 edly red as in the male. 



The length of this species is about twenty-one 

 inches; the extent varies from thirty-one to 

 thirty-three inches. 



GEEATEE BLUEBILL. BEOADBILL. 



(Aythya marila.) 



The dark, close-flying flocks of the Scaup 

 Ducks are among the first arrivals on our coast 

 with the approach of winter. Common enough 

 in the months of cold weather and less suspi- 

 cious of the gunner than the average waterfowl, 

 this guilelessness often works to their disadvan- 

 tage, so that our markets are usually well sup- 

 plied with them. Their flesh is held in fair es- 

 teem. When they have fed on a vegetable diet 



