FAM. L. DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS 



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Smf Scoter 



Length, 22; wing, H (lOJ-llJ); tail, 4J ; tarsus, 2; culmen, li 

 Northern North America ; breeding in Labrador and westward, and 

 wintering south to Virginia, southern Illinois, and Lower California. 



26. Surf Scoter (166. OiiMmia perspicillata). — A black duck, 

 with a square white blotch on the crown and a triangular one 

 on the back neck. The orange and 

 yellow bill has a round black spot on 

 the side back of the nostril. The feath- 

 ers on the culmen extend forward almost 

 to the nostril, while those on the side of 

 bill do not. The female is almost every- 

 where sooty-brown, paler below, and 

 whitish on the belly ; the sides of the head have whitish spots 

 at base of bill and on cheeks. The female has not such a bulg- 

 ing base of bill nor such an extension of feathers on the 

 culmen. (Sea Coot.) 



Length, 20; wing, 9| (9-10); tail, 4; tarsus, If; culmen, IJ. North- 

 ern North America, on coasts and inland waters ; breeding from the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence northward, and wintering south to Virginia and the Ohio 

 River, and casually to Florida. 



27. Ruddy Buck (167. Erismattira jamaicensis). — A com- 

 mon, and, in full dress, brightly colored, black-crowned, white- 

 cheeked, chestnut- 

 backed duck, with 

 wavy white and 

 gray breast and un- 

 der parts, and a 

 short, black tail of 

 narrow, stiff, sharp- 

 pointed feathers. 

 The female (also 

 the male as usually 

 found) has a dull 



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 Buddy Duck i i ■ i, vj. 



'' back, grayish-white 



cheeks with a dusky bar extending back from the bill, and the 



