In the adult birds, the white head and tail will always identify them, but in the first and second year they are a brownish black, the second year showing traces of the white on head and tail.
Color=--The accompanying illustration is the best description of this duck that can be given, as the colors are white and a brownish black.
In the breeding plumage, this bird is brownish black above, barred with rusty and below is marbled with brownish gray and white.
Their eggs number three or four and are brownish or greenish buff with numerous markings of brownish black, these markings being somewhat lengthened and mostly running lengthwise of the shell.
Their nests are located on the ground in meadows or on the prairies, and three or four eggs are laid, of a buff or greenish buff color, covered with numerous spots of brownish black.
Often there are splashes or scrawls of brownish black, or black, at the larger end.
The eggs are irregularly spotted or covered with small blotches of brownish black or black.
It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black.
Young grayish or brownish black, mottled above and streaked below.
In summer the throat is brownish black, but in winter the throat and sides of head are white; feet blackish bill, long and stout, 1.
In summer, with a white line from the eye to top of bill, and with a brownish black throat; in winter, without the white line and with the throat and sides of head white.
Head and neck red unfeathered; brownish black; no white in plumage; bill whitish.
Above slaty or brownish black; sides slaty; under surface of wings dusky, sometimes mixed with white.
The female lays from four to six eggs, of an oval form, colour bluish white, marked with distinct spots of brownish black, purplish grey, and reddish brown.
Defn: A mineral of brownish black color, occurring in columnar or foliated masses.
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