SUMMER DUCK OF CAROLINA. 
of white, accompanied by a streak of black. 
The wing is covered with feathers of a brown 
that melts into black, with rich reflections of 
burnished steel ; and those of the flanks, which 
are very delicately fringed and vermiculated 
with little blackish lines on a grey ground, 
are prettily striped at the tips with black and 
white, the streaks being displayed alternately, 
and seeming to vary according to the motion 
of the bird. The under-side of the body is 
pearly white-grey ; and a small white collar 
rises into a chin-piece below the bill, and 
sends off a scallop below the eye, on which 
another long streak of the same colour passes 
like a long eye -lid. The upper side of thft 
head is decorated with a superb tuft of long, 
^yhite, green, and violet feathers, which fall 
back like hair, in bunches parted by smaller 
white bunches. The front and the cheeks 
dazzle with the lustre of bronze. The iris is 
red ; and the bill is the same, with a black spot 
above : the horny tip of the bill is also black, 
and the base is hemmed with a fleshy brim of 
yellow. 
Besides tlie names already enumerated, as 
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