3l8 ANATID^ : SWANS, GEESE, AND DUCKS. 



by a dark bar ; rather larger than the last ; length, 19.00-22.00 • 

 wing, 9.00-10.00 ; occipital feathers lengthening into a slight 

 crest; billshoiter. Female probably not distinguishable with 

 certainty from that of the foregoing, unless by the dark bar on 

 the wing. 



A winter resident, rare and scarcely more than 

 casual, in most parts of New England. It is, however, 

 spoken of by Mr. Boardman as occurring in summer in 

 Maine, and Dr. Brewer so marks the species in his list, 

 doubtless upon this authority. It may not be so scarce 

 as it is supposed to be on the Maine coast, seeing how 

 likely it is to be confounded with C. glauciiun by the 

 gunners. It is so rare in southern New England as to 

 have been only recently added to the Massachusetts 

 fauna by actual capture of a specimen on Cape Cod, 

 Dec. 7, 1870, as noted by Mr. Brewster (Am. Nat., vi, 

 1872, p. 306), who adds that he has also seen numbers 

 in the Boston markets, mostly from the same State. 

 A Connecticut case is reported by Dr. Merriam ; that 

 of an adult male in possession of Mr. J. H. Sage, of 

 Portland, who purchased it Nov. 14, 1867, from a man 

 who said it had been killed on the Sound (Rev. B. 

 Conn., 1877, p. 126). 



BUFFLE-HEAD DUCK. 

 Clangula albeola (L) Steph. 



Chars. Pattern of coloration of the foregoing. Male with the head 

 particularly puffy, of varied rich iridescence, with a large white 

 auricular patch confluent with its fellow on the nape. Small; 

 14.00-16.00; extent, 22.50 ; wing, 6.00-7.00 ; bill about l.oo, 

 with nostrils in basal half; female still smaller, an insignificant 

 looking duck, with head scarcelypufTy, dark gray, with traces of 

 the auricular patch. 



