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DUCK.S, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AJIEKICA. 



Genus CLANGULA Leach. 



CLANGULA HYEMALIS {Linn.). 



Old Squaw. Old Wife. South Southerly. Long-tailed Duck. 



AduJt male in v-intn- : Central tail feathers, black, much elongated ; outer tail feathers, 

 white; top of the hea<l and back of tlie neck to back, white; a i)atch of grayish on the sides 



JIale, winter plllliKlgc. Smnnicr. 



of the liead, includiiiii' the eye. which is succeeded liy a patch of ljlacl< on the sides of tlie 

 neck, bordered on the lower throat by an indication of brown; throat and upper breast, pure 

 _ white ; breast and upper belly, black, the black contin- 



iniig over the bael< in a liand; lower belly and under 

 tail coverts, white ; wing coverts, l)lack; (juills, Ijrowu ; 

 a pale j-ellowisli band across the end of the bill. 



M^nle in x/iring : Head, smoky brown or lilack ; crown, 

 black: a white patcli ou tlie face inclmliug the ej'es; 

 entire nccl'; and breast, smoky brown or black; rest of 

 under i^arts, dull white; feathers of the upper back and 

 scapulars edged with rufous. 



.liJult f finale in lointer : Head, dull white on the 

 crown, and a ]iatch on the side of tlie back of the head, 

 smoky black or brownish black; under parts fuscous; 

 breast, gi-ayish ; bcdly, white; tail feathers, pointed, 

 but not elongated as in the male. 



Length (including tail), 21; wing, 8.50; bill, 1.10. 



" Xorthern iremisphere in North America, south to the Potomac and the Ohio (more 

 rarel}' to Floi'ida and Texas) and California; l)reeds far northward." (A. O. U.) 



