248 GAME DEEP WATER FOWL. 



tinged with gray towards the base ; the shaft 

 brown. Secondaries ash-gray, whitish, and undu- 

 lated with dark-gray towards the end ; five of 

 them having also a narrow stripe of black along 

 their outer margin. Tail brownish-gray, towards 

 the end ash-gray. The lower parts white, the 

 sides and abdomen marked with fine undulating 

 gray lines, of which there are faint traces on most 

 of the other feathers. The feet are grayish-blue, 

 tinged with yellow. 



Length to end of tail, 22 inches ; extent of 

 wings, 33 ; weight, 3J pounds. 



Adult female : The female has the bill colored 

 as in the male ; the iris reddish-brown ; the feet 

 lead-gray ; the upper parts grayish brown ; the 

 top of the head darker, its anterior part light- 

 reddish ; the chin whitish ; the neck grayish-brown, 

 as are the sides and abdomen ; the breast white ; 

 wing-coverts brownish-gray ; primary quills gray- 

 ish-brown, dusky at the end ; secondary _ quills 

 ash-gray, five of the inner with an external black 

 margin, the innermost grayish-brown like tho back, 

 and with some of the scapulars faintly undulated 

 with darker. Tail grayish-brown, paler at the 

 end ; axillars and smaller under wing-coverts white, 

 as in the male. 



