. Rod and gun . A Handsome Fair of Scaups. (Ring-bills.) 1130 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA whistling, it can rise from below thewater and whistle at once, it never whis-tles unless it is flying. The windpipe isbugle-shaped, so I think the call is pro-duced by the bird while in flight, superin-duced by the wings, but proceedingthrough this strangest windpipe in thebird creation. The kla-how-yah duck of these coasttribes is our old friend the old squaw,or coween. If you could stand on thesePacific shores and see this long-tailedbird dive fearlessly, feeding in thegigantic rollers that pound their surf
. Rod and gun . A Handsome Fair of Scaups. (Ring-bills.) 1130 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA whistling, it can rise from below thewater and whistle at once, it never whis-tles unless it is flying. The windpipe isbugle-shaped, so I think the call is pro-duced by the bird while in flight, superin-duced by the wings, but proceedingthrough this strangest windpipe in thebird creation. The kla-how-yah duck of these coasttribes is our old friend the old squaw,or coween. If you could stand on thesePacific shores and see this long-tailedbird dive fearlessly, feeding in thegigantic rollers that pound their surf onthese resounding shores, cleaving a cave-forming mass of sea green water, tearingalong with a white crest as of some. Setting Blue-bill. tremendous ocean stallion, dippingthrough this destructive force as readilyas a swallow cleaves the clear air,although the wave is powerful enoughto rend the timbers of the stranded shipalongside, you w^ould class it with themost skilful of the ducks. Its flesh isfishy to a degree; in fact, my assistantrefused to pluck it, insisting that hewould have to scale it afterwards. AnIrish chum says it is a good fast bird-fish and fowl on Friday. We have out here that rare harlequinduck, a bird of slatey red that looks as ifsome wildly-excited marine artist hadlavishly bedaubed it with his whitepaint. Strange, whistling notes, swift. even, unheeding flight, wonderful divingpowers, birds that hide their nests underthe shore rocks. In the case of themale, the artist just added two dashesof red on the breast and pate—regular,eiven brush marks to distinguish thisfrare drake from his little silent mate. Of eiders we have six. The northern,American and king roam far and wide;ac
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