THE BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 89 



153 Charitonetta albeola (Linnaeus). 

 Bufflehead, Butterball. 



Adult mote. Length, 12.25-13.50. Wing, 5.90-6. Back, black ; head crested 

 with metallic purple and green, with a large fan-shaped area from the eye to the 

 nape, white ; entire under parts and collar around the neck, white ; feathers 

 on sides narrowly edged with black; wing, black, with a large white shoulder 

 patch, including some of the secondaries, some of the coverts edged with black ; 

 rump, grayish-white; tail, gray. 



Adult female. Dark grayish-brown above ; a white area on each side of the 

 face; throat, grayish-brown; rest of under parts, white; sides washed with 

 gray ; wing speculum, white ; lesser coverts, gray. 



Common transient and winter resident both along the coast and on 

 Delaware Bay. November 1st to April 15th. A few each } r ear on the 

 Upper Delaware, and regular, and not uncommon at Princeton. 1 



154 Harelda hyemalis (Linnaeus). 

 Old-squaw, Old-wife, Longtail, South-southerly. 



Adult male in winter. Length, 21-23. Wing, 8.50-9. Back and wings, 

 black ; scapulars, pale pearl-gray ; head and neck all around, white ; face, 

 gray, and a large spot on the side of the neck, black, sometimes joined by a 

 chestnut patch ; whole breast, black ; abdomen, white ; tail, black in middle ; 

 outer feathers, white ; center feathers, very much elongated ; bill, black, with an 

 orange band. 



In spring. Gray on front part of the head; rest of head and neck, black; 

 scapulars, black, edged with brown. 



Adult female in winter. Length, 15-16. Back nearly all dusky ; top of head, 

 dusky ; black on under parts restricted to a collar on the neck. 



Common winter resident along the coast. October to the middle of 

 April. Mr. W. W. Justice killed one at Beach Haven as late as June, 

 in 1899 ; doubtless a barren bird. Casual on the Delaware above Phila- 

 delphia, and a rare migrant at Morristown (Thurber). 



1 Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 38. 



