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p. Americana. Male adult: Wing, 9.25 inches ; bill to basal angle, 1.85 ; tarsus, 1.60 ; mid- 

 dle toe, 2.50. Ilab. North America. 

 B. Size small (wing less than 7.00 inches) ; male with a large white patch on each side of the 

 occiput (confluent behind) ; iemale with a white spot on the auricular region. 

 3, C. albeola. Wing, C.(K)-C.75 inches ; bill from tip to end of basal angle, 1.15-1.25; depth 

 at base, .56-.70; width, .45-.60; tarsus, 1.15-1.25; middle toe, 1.80-2.00. Uab. North 

 America. 



Clangiila islandica. 



BABBOW'B OOLDEN-ETE. 



Aruts islandica, Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 541. 



Bucepluda Uhindiat, Baiud, B. N Am. 1858, 796 ; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 694 — CouES, Key, 1872, 



200 ; Clicck List, 1873, no. 506 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 577. 

 Clangida islandica, Bonai'. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. 1842, 74. — RiDOW. Nona. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 



619. — CouKs, Clieck List, 2(1 cd. 1882, no. 726. 

 Clangula Barrovii, Sw. & liicu. F. B. A. II. 1831, 456, pi. 70 (^). 

 FuUgula Barrovii, Nurr. Man. II. 1834, 444. 

 Clangula scapularis, Brkiim, Viig. Deutschl. 1831, 932. 

 Fuligiila clangula, viir., Ari). Oni. Biog. V. 1839, 105, pi. 403 ; Synop. 1839, 292 (part) j B. Am. VII. 



1843, 362 (part ; describes the species as supposed summer plumage of B. clangula). 



Had. Northoni North America, south in winter to New York, Illinois, Utah, etc. ; breeding 

 in the high north, and south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. Greenland ; Iceland ; acci- 

 dental in Europe. 



Sp. Char. Adult male : Head and upper half of the neck glossy blue-black, with reflecticms 

 of green, blue, and violet, according to the light ; a somewhat wedge-shaped vertical patch of white 



;. Deutschl. 



C. islandica. 



.1863,202. 

 List, 1838, 



■cross the anterior half of the lores, bordering the lateral base of the bill, the upper part forming 

 tti acute angle on each side of the forehead, the lower part rounded. Upper parts velvety black, 

 with a soft bluish-violet tinge ; outer row of scapulars marked with a mesial cuneate stripe of 

 |»tiny white, the greater portion of the stripes concealed, so that the exposed portion forms round- 

 ||ih or oblong spots ; nuddle wing-coverts white, producing a broad bar ; exposed terminal half of 



ater coverts, with the whole of the exposed portion of the five or six inner secondaries, white, 



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