. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . s,and enjoys the sport as well as her consort. Xelson tells of such a pairwhich attracted his attention in the lower Yukon country : Back and forththey passed at a mar\elously swift rate of speetl. with fre(|uent (|uick turnsand evolutions. At one moment they were almost out of \iew high o\-erhead,and the next saw them skimming along the ground in an in\-ol\-e(l course verydifficult to follow with the eye. Ere long a second male jijined in the chase,then a third, and so on un
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . s,and enjoys the sport as well as her consort. Xelson tells of such a pairwhich attracted his attention in the lower Yukon country : Back and forththey passed at a mar\elously swift rate of speetl. with fre(|uent (|uick turnsand evolutions. At one moment they were almost out of \iew high o\-erhead,and the next saw them skimming along the ground in an in\-ol\-e(l course verydifficult to follow with the eye. Ere long a second male jijined in the chase,then a third, and so on until six males \-ied with each other in the pursuit. Theoriginal pursuer appeared to be the only one capable of keeping close to the covfemale, and owing to her dextrous turns and curves he was able to draw nearonlv at inter- _ _. , vals. When-e\er he didsucceed he al-wa_\s passedunder the fe-male, and ke])tso close to herthat theirwings clatteredt(5gether witha noise like aw a t c h m a nsrattle, andaudible a longdistance. Thischase lastedhalf an hour,and after fi\eof the pur-suers haddropped off . young Taken in Oregon. Photo by Bohhnan and Finlcy. 786 THE WOOD DUCK. one by one, the pair rL-maining (and I iliiuk tlu male was tlie same thatoriginated the ]iiifsuit) settled in one cif the pniids. Pintails afe coiunioii with us only in winter, and they are the first of theRi\er Ducks to move northward in the early spring. While they are lo\-ers offresh water, and prefer the secludeil Lakes and ])iicils nf the interinr. the\- are ofregular occurrence (.)n salt water during the migrations, and are most in evi-dence on Puget Sound in , when the northward luovenient is underfull headwa}. They nest chiefly north of our borders and are counted themost abundant breeding River Ducks in western .Alaska. .\ few. howexer,remain to breed in eastern Washington. We found a nest at Brook Lake,which, lia\ing escaped the mower, fell a \-ictini to the horse-rake, so that onlys
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