330 FEATHERED GAME 
tinent, though fairly abundant on the Pacific 
coast during the winter months. 
The Red-head breeds far north in the Fur 
Countries making its nest upon the ground 
and lining it with down and soft grass. The 
number of eggs is usually eight, in color pale 
buff. 
In plumage the drake is the finer of the pair. 
His head and neck are a bright chestnut red 
with a sheen as of burnished copper. Lower 
neck, breast, upper back, rump, and tail coverts 
above and below are blackish. Back bluish 
gray, finely waved all over with blackish lines. 
Flanks and sides much like the back but more 
faintly marked. For the rest below, grayish 
white. Wing coverts bluish gray. Speculum 
ashy gray. Inside of the wings mostly white. 
Wing quills and tail feathers dull bluish gray 
or dusky. Bill rather short, broad and flat- 
tened at the end as compared with the canvas- 
back’s, in color dull bluish with a black band 
across the tip. Iris of male orange; of the fe- 
male yellow. Feet dull bluish with dusky webs 
and black nails. 
The female is marked much like the male, but 
the head and -neck are of dull brownish hue, 
