AMERICAN WIDGEON. 207 



eluding the unguis and a portion of the margins, 

 black. Iris hazel. Feet light bluish-gray, the 

 webs darker, the claws dusky. The upper part 

 of the head is white, more or less mottled with 

 dusky on its sides ; the loral space and cheeks 

 reddish-white, dotted with greenish-black ; a broad 

 band from, the eye to behind the occiput deep- 

 green. The lower part of the hind neck, the 

 scapulars, and the fore part of the back are 

 minutely transversely undulated with brownish- 

 black and light brownish-red ; the hind part 

 similarly undulated with blaekish-brown and gray- 

 ish-white. The smaller wing-coverts are brownish- 

 gray ; the primary quills and coverts dark gray- 

 ish-brown ; the secondary coverts white, -tipped 

 with black. The speculum is duck-green anteri- 

 orly, bounded by the black tips of the second- 

 ary coverts. The tail feathers are light brownish- 

 gray. The throat is brownish-black ; the lower 

 part of the neck in front and the fore part of 

 the breast light brownish-red ; the breast, belly, 

 and sides of the rump white ; the sides of the 

 body finely undulated with white and dusky ; the 

 rump beneath and the lower tail-coverts black. 



Length to end of tail, 20£ inches ; extent of 

 wings, 34| ; weight, 1 pound 14 ounces. 



