46 BIRD NAMES. [No. 15. 



white. Bill high at base, greenish black throughout ; its length 

 from corner of mouth two and a half to two and three-quarter 

 inches, and greatest width about thirteen sixteenths of an inch. 

 Legs bluish gray. 



Female. Head, neck, and fore part of body dull brownish 

 buff or brownish tan ; wings nearly plain grayish brown ; upper 

 parts of body, with sides, and rump all around grayish brown 

 minutely sprinkled with wavy dull white. Belly white, tinged 

 here and there with yellowish and grayish tints. Bill and legs 

 as in male. 



o. 15. Female. 



Length twenty-one to twenty-two and three-quarter inches : 

 extent thirty-three and a half to thirty-six inches or a little more. 



Another way of distinguishing it from No. 16 is by the 

 rather flat manner in which the forehead continues the upper 

 line of the bill ; the forehead of No. 16 being more arched and 

 intellectual-looking. 



In many waters of the "West, this bird, whose range is sup- 

 posed to include the greater part of the country,* is found in 



* "Breeds from the northern tier of states northward, in the Rocky Moun- 



