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shorter than is usual with the Fal/cnide, and so better adapted for immersion. 
The female is like the male, only somewhat darker, and has a broad brown 
band across the chest, and is rather larger; length 24 inches. 
Young birds have all the feathers on the upper parts conspicuously edged 
with white; their tails are more strongly barred than in the adult; they do not 
assume the full plumage until the third or fourth year. 
