Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Shelldrake

Ad. 8. - Whole head and throat black, more greenish above; a white ring around the neck; a broad cinnamon-rufous band with black streaks on the upper breast and sides of the lower neck; lesser wing-coverts, tips of greater ones, secondaries, breast, and belly white; rump and sides finely barred with black and white. Ad. q and Im. - Top and back of head grayish brown washed with cinnamon-rufous; sides of the head and throat cinnamon-rufous, paler on the throat; rest of under parts white; back and tail ashy gray; speculum white. L., 22.00; W., 9.00; Tar., 170; B. from Ν., 1.80.

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