. . ay be distinguished from other female Scaups by whiteeye ring and bands about bill. (See Fig. 7.) Its white face resemblesthose of other female Scaups, but it is lighter on cheeks. The grayishblue wing patch of both sexes is shown when the bird flaps its distinguishes this species from all other Ducks, except the Red-head, which is much larger. Season. — Rather rare spring and fall migrant; very rare in spring on theNew England coast; seen in autumn from about the middle of Octoberto the first of December. Range. — Nor
. . ay be distinguished from other female Scaups by whiteeye ring and bands about bill. (See Fig. 7.) Its white face resemblesthose of other female Scaups, but it is lighter on cheeks. The grayishblue wing patch of both sexes is shown when the bird flaps its distinguishes this species from all other Ducks, except the Red-head, which is much larger. Season. — Rather rare spring and fall migrant; very rare in spring on theNew England coast; seen in autumn from about the middle of Octoberto the first of December. Range. — North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia tonorthern California, and from northern Alberta and Lake Winnipeg 128 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. south to North Dakota, northern Iowa, and southern Wisconsin; win-ters from southern British Columliia, New Mexico, northern Texas,southern Illinois, and New Jersey south to Porto Rico and Guatemala;occurs in migration north to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Quebec;recorded from Bermuda and Fig. 7. — Head of female. Ring-necked Duck apparently is not recorded as verycommon anywhere and is certainly rare now, if not very rare,in Massachusetts, except in the southeastern counties, whereit occurs more commonly in some localities. To the northand east it grows rarer. Dr. Townsend gives but one record for Essex County, but records three takenat Wenham Lake. Rich saysthat probably not more thanone specimen is killed dur-ing the year in Maine, andKnight regards it as a veryrare migrant there, althoughhe says that Boardman oncefound it breeding in Wash-ington County. It resembles the Lesser Scaup in appearance,size and habits.^ Like that species it is very swift on the w^ it springs from the water it may be recognized by the dis-tinct whistling sounds made by its wings in its sudden effortto escape danger. The only specimen I ever killed was one ofa pair which passed me on a high win
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