156. 



134 LUCKS. 



1. BUFFLE-HEAD, C, ALBEOLA. 14.00; bill, 1.15; 

 head, upper neck, and back, black ; triangular patch back of 

 eye, broad line through wing, and beneath, white ; bill, black ; 

 feet, yellow, fig. 157. Female, smoky-brown above, white 

 below : white patch on wing and a small one back of eye and 

 below it. Breeds from Me. northward, placing its nest in 

 holes and cavities of trees and stumps. South in Oct. to win- 

 ter from Mass, southward to Cuba. Comes north in March. 



f. Long-tailed Ducks. Harelcla. 

 Medium-sized, small-headed, short-necked ducks, mostly 

 black in color and which change plumage in winter; bill, 

 short and narrow. 



1. OLDSQUAW, 

 H. HYEMALIS. 18.00; bill, 

 1.15 ; summer, head, neck, 

 breast, upper parts, and 

 middle tail, brownish- 

 black; sides of head and 

 body, bluish-ash; patch 

 behind eye, longitudinal 

 streak on sides of occiput, 

 under parts, and sides of 

 tail, white; some feathers 

 of upper parts, edged with 



C, d, 2. 1-8. chestnut; bill, black with 



narrow ring of orange near tip ; feet, bluish. Winter, differs 

 from summer in having head, neck, upper breast, and back, 

 white; patch of brown on side of head below one of ashy, fig. 

 158. Female differs in lacking the long central tail feathers, 

 the head and neck are dusky with whitish patch around eye 

 and on neck behind. Breeds far north throughout the north- 

 ern hemisphere; migrates south in middle Oct. to winter in 

 abundance along the coast of N. E. south to the Potomac; 

 comes north in late April. Frequents bays along the coast 

 keeping in close flocks from a few pairs to a hundred or more. 

 In feeding all of a flock are apt to dive at once and reappear 



