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Title: Directory to the birds of Eastern North America ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Maynard, C. J. (Charles Johnson), 1845-1929
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: West Newton
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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.70;white triangle on top of head, another on nape, arranged baseto base; bill with square black spot at base of upper mandi-ble margined with reddish-orange, in front of this is a bluish-white spot, followed by orange, then dusky at tip; under man-dible, pinkish ; iris, yellowish-white ; feet, reddish-orange, fig.164. Female, brown with whitish patch at base of bill, and onsides of head; bill, black. Range and migration, similar tok, 1, but does not breed quite as far south. Abundant. Nests,placed on the ground; eggs, greenish-buff. This and the twopreceding species associate together, sometimes bedded inlarge flocks on the ocean and at other times in smaller num-bers in bays, mouths of rivers, etc. All fly into the tide riversto feed on mollusks which have beea exposed by the fallingwater, and out again during flood tide. Inflight small flocksoften move close to the surface and usually in line, one be-hind the other, large flocks rise higher and move in irregularmasses. Pi:,A.TE 15.
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NoBTHEKN Blue Yellow-back.Male. Female. DIRKCTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 139 D. STIFF-TAILED DUCKS. Erismaturidae. Small ducks rather brightly colored in summer but chang-ing into duller plumage in winter; head, small; neck, largeand short; tail feathers, narrowedand stiffened, fig. 166; entire plum-age, closely blended. a. Rudder Ducks.Erisinatura. Bill, slightly bent upward attip and its nail is small and bentunder; its edge is harder and tinelyserrated and the lower mandible isalso provided with a similar edgingat its tip, fig. 166, showing underside. 1. RUDDY DUCK, E. rubida. 15.00; bill, 1.40; neckand upper parts, chestnut; top of head, black, sides, white;beneath, whitish transversely banded with dusky; bill andfeet, ashy-blue, fig. 167. Female and winter male; chestnutreplaced by reddish-brown marked with spots and wavy linesof dusky; throat and line at base of bill, whitish. Breedslocally throughout N. A. south to Guatemala; migrates southFig. 167. Fiof. 168. KALEV

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