. Feathered game of the Northeast . ks and a dark brown spotunder the ears. Upper breast dark brown be-tween the white of the neck and the under mostly orange, with nail and central lineof the mandible black. When a flock of winterSquaws goes past it looks like a snow squalldriving over the waves. Occasional males aretaken in a curiously pied and mixed dress, astage between the regular plumages. Somebirds are found carrying the winter dressthrough the summer or vice versa. The female is a modestly attired duck. Shehas not the elongated central tail head, neck and upper
. Feathered game of the Northeast . ks and a dark brown spotunder the ears. Upper breast dark brown be-tween the white of the neck and the under mostly orange, with nail and central lineof the mandible black. When a flock of winterSquaws goes past it looks like a snow squalldriving over the waves. Occasional males aretaken in a curiously pied and mixed dress, astage between the regular plumages. Somebirds are found carrying the winter dressthrough the summer or vice versa. The female is a modestly attired duck. Shehas not the elongated central tail head, neck and upper parts in general arelike the males but paler and of less decidedcolors; grayish brown with a whitish patch onneck and about the eye. Under parts white ex-cept the upper part of the breast which is lightbrown. The length of the male bird varies accordingto the development of his tail feathers fromtwenty to twenty-three inches; extent aboutthirty inches. The length of the female abouteighteen inches; extent a trifle less than that of. o m -J < THE HARLEQUIN DUCK 365 the male bird. Weight of this species from oneand three-quarters to two pounds. The Squawis found on the coast of Alaska but is rarelyseen on the western coast of the United is common all along the coasts of northernEurope and Asia. THE HARLEQUIN DUCK. **LORD ANDLADY. (Histrionicus histrionicus.) This bird inhabits nearly the whole of thenorthern hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Green-land, Iceland and North America. In our owncountry it breeds rarely in our northern States,more commonly in the Arctic regions. It alsonests in the interior in the mountains, theRockies and the Sierra Nevadas, which factseems strange to our sportsmen of the north-east, for to them the Harlequin is a bird of thedeep water, only found in any number far outto sea with the king eiders. It is reported tohave bred along the eastern coast line of NewEngland and in the Bay of Fundy, but probablyis nowhere numerous in the nesting season sou
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