THE GARGANEYS. 
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ish ; iris brown. Total length, i 4'5 inches ; culmen, 17; wing, 
7-6; tail, 3-0; tarsus, I ’S- 
Adult Female Darker than the female of Q. querquedula, and 
easily distinguished by its blue wings and dusky speculum ; the 
under surface of the body deep buff, thickly mottled with brovvm 
centres to the feathers, very broad on the flanks. 1 otal lengt , 
14 inches ; wing, 7-0. 
Range in Great Britain.— iV purely accidental visitor, of which 
only one authentic occurrence is known, a male bird having 
been shot near Dumfries. The species has also been procured 
in Denmark, in April, 1886. 
Range outside the British Islands. — North America in general, 
but chiefly east of the Rocky Mountains, in winter, the whole 
of the w 4 t Indies and Middle America, south to Ecuador 
{Ridgivay). 
Hahits. — Similar to those of Q. querquedula. 
Eggs.—Pale buff. x\xis, 1-84 inch; diam., i- 34 - 
