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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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wing speciesare Sea Ducks whose Tank and fishy-smelling flesh excludesthem from the list of Game Ducks. They are seen about thecreeks and beaches at a time when there is little bird lifepresent, and are interesting on this account. The Whistleris a title the Golden-eye receives, from the loud noise madeby its wings during flight, which is accomplished withwonderful velocity. Bufflehead: Charitonetta albeola. Length: 12.75-15 inches. Male: Above black, neck, shoulders, and all below white. Head puffy, purplish green, with a large white patch on the nape extending to front of eyes. Wings largely white; tail black. Bill short, about 1 inch.Female: Above blackish with white streak on each side of head, below whitish.Season: Winter resident; November to April. Breeds: From Maine northward through the Fur Countries to Alaska.Bange: North America, south in winter to Cuba and Mexico. A handsomely plumed Duck with a puffy head; to befound by inland ponds and rivers that remain unfrozen, as ?64
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SWIMMING BIRDS. Ducks well as on the coast. It is a cunning diver, and obtains itsfood in this way; it is said, that the Bufflohoad, like theGrebes and Loons, will dive at the flash of a gnn, and re-main under water with its bill alone visible. Samuels writes that, When several of these birds aretogether, one always remains on the surface, while the othersare below in search of food, and, if alarmed, it utters a shortquack, when the others rise to the surface, and on ascertain-ing the cause of the alarm, all dive and swim off rapidly tothe distance of several hundred feet. Old Squaw: Clangula Tiyemails* The Old Wife.Plate 75. Length : Depending on the tail development, up to 23 inches. Male: In winter^ head and neck white, with gray cheeks; abovevaried with black and white. Breast blackish; belly white.Four middle tail feathers blackish and very long. Wings gray-ish ; no speculum. Bill black, tipped with orange ; feet dark. Female: Dusky brown, paler on throat, whitish below. White pa

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