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Koskonoiig all the suinmer, and i)erliai)S breed there ; they have not, however, been 

 loiiiid doing this, nor have any broods of yoiuig birds been noticed. 



Eggs of this Duck from the Yukon Kiver (Smithsonian Institution, Nos. 5037 and 

 (iGL'G) are of a pale grayish butt' with a tinge; of olive ; their usual breadth is 1.50 

 inches, and their length varies from 2.LH) to li.oO inches. 



Fuliz collaris. 



THE RINO-NECKEO SCAT7F DUCK; BIKO-BILI. 



Anas collaris, Donovan', Br. Hiids, VI. 1809, ]il. 147 (England). 



Fuliijula eolliirU, Bonai'. List B. Eur. 1842, 73. — CouKS, Ke)', 1872, 289; Clieck List, 1873, no. 



0(12 ; 2.1 ed. 1882, no. 722 ; B. X. W. 1874, 574. 

 Fill U. collaris, Baikd, B. X. Am. 1858,792; Cat. X, Am. B. 1859, no. ."igo. — Hiwiw. Norn. N. 



Am. B. 1S81, no. 616. 

 AniiH fHliijula, Wii.s. Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, ^yo, pi. 67, fig. 5 (not of Linn. 1766). 

 Anus (Fuligula) rufilorqms, BoNAl'. .Tour. Pliilad. Acad. IIL 1824, 381. 

 Fi'liijiila riifilorqiifs, Bonak Syno]). 1828, .393. — .Sw. & liiiil. F. B. A. II. 1831, 454. -- NiTT. 



Man. II. 1834, 439. —An.. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 259, jd. 234 ; .Synop. 1839, 287 ; B. Am. VI. 



1843, 320, pi. 398. 



IIab. The whole of North Anu-ricii, south to Guiiteniala and the West Indie.s; breeding chiefly 

 in the high north. Accidental in Europe. 



Sp. (.'har. AJull muk: Head, neck, jugidum, erissuni, and uii])er parts generally, bhick, the 

 head and neck with a faint violet gloss, tlie wing-coverts inclining to slate ; secondaries ("specu- 

 lum ") bluish gniy, darker suliterininally, and very narrowly tijij.ed with white ; primaries slate- 

 gray, the outer quills and ends of the others dusky. A triangular spot of white on the chin, and 



F. collaris, male. 



• more or less di.stinct collar of chestnut round the lower neck ; brea.st and aMomen white, 

 fbruptly define<l anteriorly against the hluck of the jugulum, hut changing insensibly into the black 

 <m the crissum, through a gnuluated barring or transverse mottling of white and dusky ; sides 

 irhite, delicately unilulate.1 with grayish dusky. Axillars and lining of the wing immaculate 

 ^jrhite. Bill lead-color, with a narrow basuil and broad subterminal band of bluish white, the end 

 la<k ; iris bright yellow; legs and feet j.ale slaty. Adult fonak : Crown and nape dull dark 

 nvn, iKJConiing gradually lighter below ; rest of the head paler an<l grayer, the anterior half of 

 lores, the chin, throat, and foreneck nearly or ((uite white ; jugulum, sides, and flanks, deep 

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