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shading on fore-breast and sides to gray or grayish brown ; spot 

 on side of head and wing-mark white. Lower parts white, 

 though with some dusky shading about the legs and back of 



X<. 24. Female* 



them. Bill more dusky than in male. Legs bluish gray with 

 lavender tinge, the webs dusky. 



Length twelve and three quarters to fifteen inches ; extent 

 twenty-two to twenty-five inches. 



This is a common species, visiting most parts of the country 

 during winter, and the full-dressed drake is one of our most 

 beautiful birds. 



BUFFLE-HEAD, or BUFFEL'S HEAD DUCK as Catesby gives 

 it (Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, etc., 1731): BUFFLE DUCK: 

 BUFFALO -HEADED DUCK: LITTLE BROWN DUCK, the female 

 being described under this latter title in another part of Cates- 

 by's work : SPIRIT, or SPIRIT-DUCK: Edwards, in Nat. Hist. Birds, 

 Part II., 1747, describes the drake as LITTLE BLACK AND WHITE 

 DUCK, and speaks of its being known to Newfoundland fisher- 

 men as " Spirit :" CONJURING-DUCK, see Conjuring and Spirit 

 Duck, No. 23. 



Yery generally known from Eastport, Me., to Falmouth, 

 Mass., as DIPPER ; * though at certain points along this coast it 



* This and other names mentioned farther along are considerably mixed 

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