80 
BUFFEL-HEADED DTJCK. 
first quill longest ; secondaries short, broad, rounded, the inner elongated, 
lanceolate, and decurved, as are the scapulars. Tail rather short, pointed, 
of fourteen feathers. 
Bill dull greyish-blue, as are the feet, the claws yellowish-grey. The 
upper part of the head and a broad band surrounding the neck are white ; 
the throat ; some feathers around the eye are black ; a light green patch in 
the loral space, and a transverse patch of the same on the nape, margined 
behind and laterally with black. A broad band on the neck and the whole 
of the back is velvet-black, with green reflections ; the smaller wing-coverts 
white ; the secondary coverts bluish-black, terminating in a broad white 
band ; the elongated secondaries and scapulars with the inner web white, 
the outer black, with blue reflections ; the primaries and coverts brownish- 
black, the^tail black, as are the lower tail-coverts and abdomen ; the rest 
of the lower parts deep reddish-buff, fading toward the shoulders and neck 
into pure white ; there is a bluish-black spot on each side of the lower part 
of the neck anterior to the wing. 
Length to end of tail 16 inches ; bill along the ridge T \ ; wing from flexure 
8f ; tail 4 ; tarsus 1 T 3 F ; inner toe and claw 1 £ ; middle toe and claw 2£ ; 
outer toe and claw 2i ; breadth of unguis cf upper mandible f ; breadth 
of bill at base §. 
BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. 
Fuligula albeola, Linn. 
PLATE OOCOYIII. — Male and Fe m ale. 
There are no portions of the Union on the waters of which this beautiful 
miniature of the Golden-eye Duck is not to be found, either during the 
autumnal months or in winter ; and, therefore, to point out any particular 
district as more or less favoured by its transient visits would be useless. 
The miller’s dam is ornamented by its presence ; the secluded creeks of the 
Middle States are equally favoured by it as the stagnant bayous and lakes of 
Lower Louisiana ; in the Carolinas and on the Ohio, it is not less frequent ; 
it being known in these different districts by the names of Spirit Duck, 
