. . lly get a breeze blows it sometimes drifts the whole flock upona lee shore, where the lynx or the fox lies in wait for morning in January, 1900, I crept down at daylightto the shore of the Banana River in East Florida, expectingto find a flock of Bluebills drifted inshore by the wind, butbefore I reached the shore I saw a creeping lynx stealingdown the beach on a similar errand, oblivious to all but theDucks, on which he also wished to breakfast. He has killedno Ducks since that day. The food of this species diffe
. . lly get a breeze blows it sometimes drifts the whole flock upona lee shore, where the lynx or the fox lies in wait for morning in January, 1900, I crept down at daylightto the shore of the Banana River in East Florida, expectingto find a flock of Bluebills drifted inshore by the wind, butbefore I reached the shore I saw a creeping lynx stealingdown the beach on a similar errand, oblivious to all but theDucks, on which he also wished to breakfast. He has killedno Ducks since that day. The food of this species differs from that of the precedingmuch as its preference for smaller bodies of water and freshwater would indicate. It takes the larvae of insects, worms,crustaceans, snails, etc. Mr. Robert O. Morris (1901) saysthat it is not uncommon near Springfield in autumn, and thatpond snails appear to be its favorite food while there. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 127 RING-NECKED DUCK {Marila collaris).Common or local names: Ring-neck; Ring-necked Scaup; Ring-billed Male. Length. — About inches. Adult Male. — Upper parts, breast and under tail coverts black, deepest onhead, which shows green, violet and purple iridescences at close range;a more or less inconspicuous orange brown collar on neck; triangularwhite spot on chin; wings slate gray; wing patch bluish gray; belowwhite; flanks and lower belly marked with fine waved lines of black;bill dark leaden bluish, tipped with black, and with subterminal andbasal bands of pale blue; iris yellow; feet dusky blue. Adult Female. — Lacks the neck ring and the waved lines on flanks, whichare barred; a well-marked band of grayish white around base of bill,shading to pure white on chin; general tints brownish; top of head,back of neck, back and wings dark brown; speculum or wing patchdark grayish blue, much like that of male; flanks coarsely barred withtwo shades of brown; below white; bill slate, black-tipped, with paleblue subter
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