232 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 
from Maine to Alaska. The nest is described as being built in a stump or 
tree. The eggs are a pale buff usually from eight to twelve in number. 
Charitonetta albeola (male). 
Genus CLANGULA Leacu. 
CLANGULA HYEMALIS (Zizzn.). 
Old Squaw. Old Wife. South Southerly. 
Adult male in winter: Central tail feathers black, much elongated; outer tail feathers 
white; top of the head and back of the neck to back white; a patch of grayish on the sides of 
the head including the eye, which is succeeded by a patch of black on the sides of the neck, 
a bordered on the lower throat by an indication of brown; 
Ka throat and upper breast pure white ; breast and upper 
as belly black, the black continuing over the back in a 
band; lower belly and under tail coverts white; wing 
coverts black; quills brown; a pale yellowish band 
across the end of the bill. 
Male in summer: Front of the head white; rest 
of head, neck, breast, and upper belly smoky black. 
Adult female in winter: Head dull white on the 
crown and a patch on the side of the back of the head 
smoky black or brownish black; upper parts fuscous; 
breast grayish; belly white; tail feathers pointed but 
not elongated as in the male. 
Length (including tail), 21; Wing, 8.05; Bill, 1. 
(Male, winter plumage.) 
