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FEMALE GOOSANDER. 

 [Plate LXVIIL— Fig. 2.] 



Pealp:'s Museum, tN*o. 2933.—- Di/w Diver, Lath. Syn. Ill, p. 420. — Arct, ZooL JV*o, 465. — Bewick's 

 Brit. Birds, II, p. 23.— -Tukt. Sijst. p. 53B.—UHarlefemelle, Bmss. VI, p. 236.— Buff. YIII, p. 

 272 PI. Enl. 953. 



THIS generally measures an inch or two shorter than the 

 male; the length of the present specimen was twenty five inches, 

 extent thirty five inches; bill crimson on the sides, black above; 

 irides reddish; crested head and part of the neck dark brown, 

 lightest on the sides of the neck, where it inclines to a sorrel 

 color; chin and throat white; the crest shoots out in long radiating 

 flexible stripes; upper part of the body, tail, and flanks an ashy 

 slate, tinged with brown ; primaries black ; middle secondaries 

 white, forming a large speculum on the wing; greater coverts 

 black, tipt for half an inch with white ; sides of the breast, from 

 the sorrel colored part of the neck downwards, very pale ash, 

 with broad semicircular touches of white ; belly and lower part 

 of the breast a fine yellowish cream color, a distinguishing trait 

 also in the male ; legs and feet orange red. 



