. . dults. 140 CAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. Field Marks. — In winter plumage head mostly white; ashy or dusky patchon side of head and upper neck, which is conspicuous in old and young. Notes. — Those most commonly uttered resemble the words, south southsoutherly or old south southerly (Elliot). 0-onc-o-onc-ough-egh-ough-egh(Mackay). Owly owly owly (Packard). Season. — Common to abundant migrant and winter resident, mainlycoastwise; October to May. Range. — Northern hemisphere. In North America breeds from islands ofBering
. . dults. 140 CAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. Field Marks. — In winter plumage head mostly white; ashy or dusky patchon side of head and upper neck, which is conspicuous in old and young. Notes. — Those most commonly uttered resemble the words, south southsoutherly or old south southerly (Elliot). 0-onc-o-onc-ough-egh-ough-egh(Mackay). Owly owly owly (Packard). Season. — Common to abundant migrant and winter resident, mainlycoastwise; October to May. Range. — Northern hemisphere. In North America breeds from islands ofBering Sea, Arctic coast of Alaska, Melville Island, Wellington Chan-nel, Grinnell Land and northern Greenland south to Aleutian Islands,east central Mackenzie, northern Hudson Bay and southeastern Ungava;winters from the Aleutian Islands south regularly to Washington,rarely to San Diego Bay, Cal., and in southern Greenland, and fromGulf of St. Lawrence south regularly to the Great Lakes and NorthCarolina, and rarely to Colorado, Texas, Louisiana and Female (Wintee). species is beautiful in plumage and elegant in form,but is pursued mainly for sport as it is no table of these handsome Ducks are shot annually alongthe New England coast, and the dead and wounded allowedto drift away on the tide or picked up merely to be shown astrophies and afterward left on the wharf or thrown says that he has seen twenty boats at a time, each con-taining from two to four shooters, all killing and woundingOld-squaws, and half of them never stopping to pick up evenone bird. It is at the hands of such butchers, he says, that the myriads of sea-fowl that once lined our coasts havebeen reduced to the hundredth part of their former numbers. ^No species, however numerous, could stand forever such deci- » Rich, Walter E.: Feathered Game of the Northeast, 1907, pp. 360, 361. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 141 mation; and to make the matter worse, th
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