266 GAME— DEEP-WATER FOWL. 



upper part of the head small and rather compact, 

 of the rest of the hea"d and neck small, blended, and 

 glossy. Wings shortish, narrow, pointed ; primary 

 quills strong, tapering, the first longest, the second 

 almost as long, the rest rapidly diminishing; 

 secondary quills broad and rounded, the inner 

 elongated and tapering. Tail very short, much 

 rounded or wedge-shaped, of fourteen feathers. 



Bill light grayish-blue, with a broad band of 

 black at the end, and a dusky patch anterior to 

 the nostrils. Iris orange-yellow. Head and neck 

 all around, for more than half its length, ol a 

 rich brownish-red, glossed with carmine above. A 

 broad belt of brownish-black occupies the lower 

 part of the neck and the fore part of the body, 

 of which the posterior part is of the same color, 

 more extended on the back than under the tail. 

 Back and scapulars pale grayish-white, very mi- 

 nutely traversed by dark brownish-gray lines ; the 

 sides and abdomen similar, the undulations gra- 

 dually fading away into the grayish-white of the 

 middle of the breast ; upper wing-coverts brown- 

 ish-gray, the feathers faintly uiidulated with whitish 

 towards the end. Primary quills brownish-gray, 

 dusky along the outer web and at the end; 

 secondaries ash-gray, narrowly tipped with white, the 



