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.75 inches in americana. The width of the nail in females of the 

 former is .2 3-. 3 inches and .2 in the latter. The white collar around the 

 neck is narrower in the present species and the gray belt on the chest 

 broader, and the brown of 

 the head is more "hair- 

 brown" and descends to 

 the middle of the neck all 

 around. 



This arctic species is 

 a rare winter visitor to the 

 waters of New York State, 

 except in the extreme north- 

 em part on the St Lawrence 

 river, where Dr D. G. Elliot 

 found it fairly common in 

 1865, and took nearly 40 

 specimens. There is also a 



male in the State Museum, 1^^|: ^ -^m^^t^"^'" 



Park Collection, no. 157, ■■■,.■■. 



taken on Green Island, Barrow goMen-eye. Clangula islandka (Gmelin). Sodus Bay 



... T specimen, author's Collection . About J nat. size 



Albany co., January 21, 



1887 ; one specimen from Long Island is in the Collection of the Long Island 

 Historical Society [se^Dutcher, Auk, 10: 270]; and the only record known for 

 western New York is an adult male taken on Sodus bay, November 1904, 

 by Mr John Burke of Rochester, and presented to the author's collection. 



Charitonetta albeola (Linnaeus) 

 Buffle-headed Duck 



Plate 10 



Anas albeola Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:124 

 Fuligula albeola DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 329, fig. 262 

 Charitonetta albeola A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 153 



charitonet'ta, Gr. x«p'Toa), to make graceful, or show grace, and v^ttu, 

 duck; albe'ola, Lat., diminutive of albus, white 



Description. Male: Head very puffy, beautifully iridescent with 

 green, bronze and violet -purple, a large white patch extending back- 





