CEDEMIA PERSPICILLATA : SURF DUCK. 329 



patch on forehead and another on nape ; none on the wing. Size 

 of ffi. americana; gape of bill about 2.50. Female smaller ; bill 

 black, shorter, gape about 2.25 ; feathers of culmen hardly or not 

 reaching nostrils ; feet dark, tinged with dusky-reddish ; webs 

 black ; plumage sooty-brown, below silvery-gray, sides of head 

 with much whitish, chiefly in two patches, one loral, the other 

 auricular. 



Fig. 71. — Young Male Surf Duck, with Outline of Bill from below. 



A migrant and winter visitant, in numbers interme- 

 diate between those of the other species of the genus, 

 the circumstances of its appearance, however, being the 

 same. Dr. Brewer notes them all as " migratory " only, 

 ignoring their winter residence. Any of them may be 

 casually found during the whole year ; but none appear 

 to be properly estimable as summer residents or breed- 

 ers in New England. 



