rter but pointed; dusky, everywhere streaked;
no white stripe on neck; whitish wing-bars; smaller than male.
*Old-squaw.

129. WOOD DUCK. 18 in.
(Aix sponsa. 144.)

Highly variegated; long, smooth, glossy crest, showing green and purple
iridescence and marked by two very narrow white parallel lines, curving
from bill and behind eye almost to end of crest; throat white, extending
irregularly in two stripes, one up behind eye, the other nearly around
neck; breast, glossy brown, spotted with white and set off on either side
by a conspicuous white stripe bordered with black; wings highly
iridescent, marked by green patch bordered with white. Female: Much
duller and less conspicuously marked; head brownish-gray, slightly
crested showing greenish tints; throat and line extending from it around
base of bill, with space about eye, white.

130. REDHEAD. 20 in.
(Aythya americana. 146.)

Puffy head and _upper_ part of neck and throat, bright reddish brown;
breast and upper part of back with rump, _black_; belly white; middle
back and _sides_ evenly and finely waved black and white, _which shows
gray at a distance_. Female: Grayish-brown, almost white on throat; brown
on head, light brown on neck. *Canvas-back.

131. LESSER SCAUP DUCK. 16 in.
(Aythya affinis. 149.)

Head, neck and breast black, showing _purple_ reflections on head; back
black and white, very narrowly barred; upper parts of wings dark, finely
mottled with white; lower part of wing brownish-black, showing a small
white patch; lower breast and belly white; bill, bluish, tipped with
black. Female: Black replaced by brown, lighter on head; region around
bill white. *Female Redhead, easily confused with female Lesser Scaup.

132. AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE. 19 in.
(Clangula americana. 151.)

Black, glossed with green; white below, extending around the neck in a
collar; head bunchy, slightly crested and marked _below eye_ and just
back of eye by a nearly oval _white spot_; wings largely white; short
bill. Female: Brown, snuff-colored on head; white collar; white wing
patch; band of bluish gray across breast and down sides. *American
Merganser.

133. BUFFLE-HEAD. 15 in.
(Charitonetta albeola. 153.)

Head, throat and upper n