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357. CHARITONETTA Stejneger. (xapts, grace; j/^rra, duck.) 



706. C. albeola(L.). Dipper. Buffle-head. Butter-ball. 

 Spirit Duck. <J -vvith head very puffy and iridescent; no white 

 before eye but a large white ear patch ; wing coverts and second- 

 aries mostly white. L. 16. W. 7. 9 smaller, dark gray, the 

 head scarcely puffy, with white behind eye. N. Am., abundant; 

 an expert diver. (Lat., whitish.) 



358. HARELDA Stephens. (Danish, hav-eld ; Sea-duck.) 



707. H. hyemalis (L.). South-Southerly. Old Squaw. 

 Long-tailed Duck. Blackish and whitish ; head, neck and lower 

 parts mostly white in winter; a patch of gray on head; breast 

 brownish black ; bill black and orange ; tail very long ; J quite 

 different, mostly grayish brown, with short tail. L. 20 W. 9. 

 T. 3 ( 9 ) to 9 ( ^). Northern, S. in winter; said to be melodious. 

 (Eu.) 



359. HISTRIONICTJS Lesson. (From Lat., histrio, harlequin.) 



708. H. histrionious (L.). Harlequin Duck. " Lords and 

 Ladies." ^ leaden bluish, much varied with black, white, and 

 chestnut ; a white patch before eye ; speculum violet purple ; 9 

 dark brown, with gray, etc. ; a white spot before eye and one behind 

 ear; bill very short. L. 17. W. 8. T. 4. B. l^-j.. Atlantic, 

 S. to N. Y. (Eu.) 



360. CAMPTOLAIMUS Gray. {Ka/nrTos, flexible ; Xaijuos, throat.) 



709. C. labradorius (Gmelin). Labrador Duck. ^ head, 

 neck, chest, and wings white; rest of body with ring about neck 

 and strip on crown black; 9 chiefly grayish. L. 24. W. 9. JST. 

 Atl., very rare, or perhaps extinct. 



361. SOMATERIA Leach. Eider Ducks. 

 (o-oi/xa, body; epiov, wool.) 

 a. Frontal processes long, acute, clubbed, extending in line with culmen on 

 each side of forehead; feathers on side of bill advancing to below nos- 

 tril; cf with scapulars white; top of head black; no V-mark on chin. 

 (Somateria.) 



710. S. dresseri Sharpe. American Eider Duck. ^ in 

 breeding dress white; under parts, rump, quills, and crown patch 

 black; 9 reddish brown, streaked; angle on side of forehead 

 broad and rounded. L. 24. W. 12. T. 4. Arctic Am.; S. to 

 Maine in winter. (Eu.) (To li. E. Dresser, an Eng. Orn.) 



aa. Frontal processes broad, squarish, nearly vertical, out of line of culmen ; 

 feathers on side of bill not reaching nostrils. (Erioneita Coues.) 



711. S. spectabilis (L.). King Eider. ^ chiefly black; neck, 

 breast, etc., white ; a black V-shaped mark on chin ; 9 brownish, 



