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BIRD NAMES. 



[No. 16. 



two to two and a quarter inches; its greatest width thirteen 

 sixteenths to fourteen sixteenths of an inch. Legs bluish gray. 

 Female. Bill similar to drake's, but darker m color; head 

 and upper neck drab or grayish brown; immediately about bill 

 and throat lighter grayish buff. Lower regions of neck, upper 

 parts of body, and the sides brown and slaty brown ; edges of 

 the feathers paler, the pale edging more noticeable about lower 

 neck region and sides. No zigzag markings anywhere (or with 

 barest suggestion of them). Wing much as in male. Under 



parts white, shading darker and brownish gray behind. Legs as 

 in male. 



Length twenty to twenty-one inches: extent about thirty- 

 three inches. 



Kange, North America in general, breeding from Maine and 

 California northward. 



RED-HEAD, or RED-HEADED DUCK: very generally known as 

 such in the books, and by gunners. It has been also called 

 the POCHARD from its resemblance to European Pochard (with 

 which it was at one time considered identical), and more cor- 

 rectly the AMERICAN POCHARD. 



