104 Birds of Canada. 



F. affinis.The Little Black-head Duck. 



This pretty and well known bird sometimes 

 breeds in Canada. It is often called " Blue-bill 

 Coot " by our sportsmen. Head, neck, shoulders, 

 lower part of back and tail, black ; belly, sides, 

 and inner wing surfaces, pure white ; wings, 

 blackish, with purple reflections. 



Aythya americana. The Red-head Duck. 



This fine duck is generally very abundant in 

 Canada. It breeds here. Head and neck, for 

 more than half its length, brownish-red ; rest of 

 neck and body anterior to the shoulders, and 

 lower part of the back, black ; beneath, white. 



A. vallisneria. The Canvass-back Duck. 



This much esteemed Duck is becoming quite 

 rare in Ontario, where it was, a few years since, 

 abundant. This duck is twenty-three or twenty- 

 four inchest long ; beak, large and black ; the 

 head and part of the neck, of a rich, glossy red- 

 dish chestnut, ending in a broad span of black 

 that covers the upper part of the breast ; back, 

 scapulas, lower part of the breast, and belly, 

 white ; tail, short and pointed ; legs and feet, 

 pale ash. Breeds in northern Canada. 



