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body both above and below lighter than in the 
redhead. Iris red; feet grayish blue. 
The female’s head is colored a dingy brown. 
She is everywhere duller in tone and plainer in 
dress than is her lord. She resembles in a 
marked degree the female redhead, but may at 
once be distinguished, if there is any doubt as 
to identity, by the shape and color of her bill 
and her red-brown iris, which is not so decid- 
edly red as in the male. 
The length of this species is about twenty-one 
inches; the extent varies from thirty-one to 
thirty-three inches. 
GREATER BLUEBILL. BROADBILL. 
(Aythya marila.) 
The dark, close-flying flocks of the Scaup 
Ducks are among the first arrivals on our coast 
with the approach of winter. Common enough 
in the months of cold weather and less suspi- 
cious of the gunner than the average waterfowl, 
this guilelessness often works to their disadvan- 
tage, so that our markets are usually well sup- 
plied with them. Their flesh is held in fair es- 
teem. When they have fed on a vegetable diet 
