eck, iridescent black; conspicuous black crest
broadly banded with white over head from eye to eye; back black, ashy on
tail; wings black with a very large white patch; _collar and entire under
parts, white_. Female: Smaller; brownish, lighter below with no crest and
only a white patch on cheeks and a small white wing patch. *Hooded
Merganser.

134. OLD-SQUAW. 21 in.
(Harelda hiemalis. 154.)

Winter Plumage: Back, long tail-feathers and breast with conspicuous
_patch on sides of neck_, black; throat and upper breast, top of head,
neck and belly, white; cheeks grayish-brown; wings black and gray; bill
crossed by yellowish band. Female: Dark brown, lighter on head, grayish
on tail; throat, breast and region about the eye, gray-white; below
white, brown on lower part of throat; no long tail-feathers; smaller than
male. Summer Plumage: Head and neck, dusky black; grayish-white on sides
of head, and female shows more brown. *Pintail.

135. CANADA GOOSE. 40 in.
(Branta canadensis. 172.)

Head and neck, black with white throat-patch extending up to and just
behind eye; brownish-gray marked with lighter, darkest on back; rump and
tail, black above and white below; fly after a leader in harrow-shaped
ranks, often high up, crying, "honk, honk, honk."

136. AMERICAN BITTERN. 30 in.
(Botaurus lentiginosus. 190.)

Streaky tawny- and dark-brown; tawny-yellowish below, mixed with white
and streaked with dark brown; conspicuous black streak on sides of neck;
short brown tail; breast feathers loose and baggy; yellow eye; call, loud
resounding squawk or booming notes which have given it the common name of
"stake-driver."

137. LEAST BITTERN. 13 in.
(Ardetta exilis. 191.)

Crown, with back, tail and upper half of wings, shining greenish-black;
rest of wing shows buff and bright chestnut; throat and baggy breast,
whitish, shading into yellowish-brown on sides of neck, and chestnut on
back of neck; buffy white below; tufts of dark feathers on either side of
breast; yellow eye. *Green Heron.

138. GREEN HERON. 17 in.
(Butorides virescens. 201.)

Wings and back dark green, latter tinged with blue-gray; crown,
greenish-black; neck and breast, rich reddish brown; throat and line down
middle of n