ANATIB^ — FULIGULIN2E: SEA BUCKS. 



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much greater extension of those on the sides of the bUl, which reach to below the nostrils, about 

 o^jposite those on the chin. The general upper outline of the bill nearly straight, and the 

 frontal processes narrow, acute, and nearly parallel (see tigs, and compare descrijition of next 

 subspecies). Adult $ : Plumage almost entirely black and white. Top of head glossy blue- 

 black, including eyes, and forking behind to receive the white of the hind-head. Occiput more 



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Fig. 495 



- Eider Ducks, ^r, nat. size. (From Brelim. ; 

 or less washed with sea-green. Keck all around, fore breast, most of the back, most of the 

 wing-coverts above and below, the curly tertials, and sides of rump, white, on the breast tiuoed 

 ^ath pale creamy-brown. Middle line of rump, upper tail-coverts, and under parts from the 

 breast, black or blackish. Length about 24.00 ; extent 40.00 ; wing 11.00 ; tail 4.00 ■ tarsus 

 1.75 ; middle toe and claw 3.75 ; culmen of bill 2.00 or less, from apex of frontal processes to 

 tip 2.60; along gape 2.40. Adult ? : Sufficiently similar to the $ in character of bill and 



