THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
crevices in rocks or in holes in turf-walls. The eggs are larger than those 
of the common species, but otherwise do not differ from them, the average 
measurements being about 2 45 by 1 8 inches. 
BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK 
CLANGULA ALBEOLA 
(Plate XXIX, Fig. 9) 
Fuligula albeola, Audubon, Birds Amer., vi, 369, pi. 408 (1843). 
Clangula albeola. Dresser, Birds Europe, vi, p. 589, pi. 439 (1877) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. 
Birds, part xxx, pi. (1895); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 385 (1895) ; Saunders, 
III. Man. Brit. Birds, p. 453 (1899). 
DULT male. — Forehead and upper part of the neck dark 
metallic -green, shading into purple on the hinder part 
i of the crown, throat and fore -neck ; sides of the head 
M ii» behind the eyes, occiput and nape pure white, the feathers 
f on the two last-named parts being lengthened into 
Ml. a crest; lower part of the neck and underparts white, 
the breast and belly with indistinct dusky middles to the feathers and 
the long flank-feathers narrowly edged above with black ; back and rump 
black; upper tail-coverts grey; scapulars black, the shorter outer ones 
white, edged with black; wings black, with a large white patch formed 
by the median and greater secondary coverts, and the median secondary 
quills; least wing-coverts black, fringed with white; under wing-coverts 
light ash, edged with whitish; axillaries sooty-brown, mostly tipped with 
white; tail-feathers dark grey, the outermost pair margined externally 
with whitish. Iris dark brown; bill bluish -black; legs and toes yellowish - 
pink, the webs and joints darker. Total length about 14*5 inches; bill 
1 *1 inch; wing 6*5 inches; tail 3*0 inches; tarsus 1 *3 inch. 
Adult male in eclipse-plumage . — ^Probably resembles the female, but retains 
the black and white wings of the adult male. No specimens in this plumage 
have been examined. 
Adult female . — ^Head and neck brown, with an oblique white patch 
across the hinder part of the cheeks and ear -coverts; upperparts brownish - 
black, the feathers of the back indistinctly edged with greyish; under- 
parts white; sides, flanks and under tail-coverts smoky-grey; wings 
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