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KEir TO ddOks, gEese and swaNs or isroETa America. 



Section 7. Hind toe, with well defined membraneous lobe 

 or flap ; belly, not white ; no white on head. 



Under parts, pale brown, faintly and irregularly 

 barred with darker brown ; axillars, ashy white, 

 the shafts often faintly tinged with brownish. 



Spectacled Eider. 



Arctunetta fisheri {female) . 

 See page 72. 



GROUP V. 

 Birds having wings from 10 to 12 inches long.* 

 Section 1. Bill, narrow, with tooth=like serrations. 



Side of bill. 



Top of bill. 

 Merganser americana. 



Head and neck, greenish black ; under parts, cream 

 white, tinged with salmon color ; feet, red. 



American merganser. 

 Slieldrake. 



Merganser americana (male). 

 See page 37. 



Head, rufous brown; upper throat, white; feet, 

 orange red. American merganser. 



Sheldrake. 



Merganser americana {female) . 

 See page 37. 



Section 2. Bill, not narrow ; hind toe, without membrane- 

 ous lobe or flap ; belly, white, sometimes faintly tinged 

 with dusky or gray on lower part. 



Axillars, white ; the shafts, white ; exposed specu- 

 lum, black and white; head, tawny brown; 

 cheeks and throat, tawny, speckled with 

 brown. 



Qadwall. 

 Creek Duck. 

 Anas strepera (male). 

 See page 44. 



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* For directions, etc., sec page 6. 



