No. 23.] 



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hind brownish gray. Lower part of neck, with fore-breast, and 

 upper parts generally, gray, the feathers pale at edges ; wings 

 darker, with white markings as indicated in picture. Under 

 parts white, the color of upper plumage continued down about 



No. 23. Female. 



the legs and behind them. Eyes as in male. Bill dull yellow- 

 ish, or yellowish olive, shaded unevenly with blackish brown. 

 Legs and toes dull yellow with dusky shading, the webs chiefly 

 black. 



Length seventeen to twenty inches ; extent twenty-seven to 

 thirty-one inches. 



A duck more or less common in winter throughout the 

 country, making its appearance, as Giraud says, " about the 

 same time that a majority of its tribe are compelled to quit 

 the 'great nursery 7 at the North for our more temperate 

 climate." 



AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE: COMMON GOLDEN-EYE. As the 

 first name marks this bird as different from European variety, 



