260 BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



eyes, and a triangular patch of the same colour on the 

 nape; irides, straw colour; bill, orange-red on the upper 

 mandible; nail, yellowish-grey; protuberance on each side 

 at the base, black ; and in front a silvery-greyish patch 

 extending to the nostrils; lower mandible, pinkish; legs 

 and feet, orange-red ; webs, dusky. Length, about twenty- 

 one inches. The adult female is of a uniform sooty-brown 

 colour, lightest about the neck, and the protuberances are 

 scarcely to be seen ; whilst the colour is dusky. 



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THE Buffet-headed Duck (Clangida albeola, Linnaeus) is a 

 very irregular winter migrant to the British Islands, and 

 inhabits the Northern Nearctic Region. The adult is con- 

 siderably less in size than Clangula glaucton, to which it 

 bears a close resemblance. It can readily be distinguished 



