. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . 25 inches; wing to ; culmen to Lengthof female to ; wing to 6; culmen .95 to 1. 51. Old-squaw. Harelda hyemalis (Linn.). (154) Synonyms: Old-wife, Long-tailed Duck, Sou-southerly, Coween, or Cowheen,Cockawee, Squealing Duck, Winter Duck.—Anas hyemalis, Linn., 1758.—Anas glacialis,Wils., 1814.—Harelda glacialis, Steph.,
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . 25 inches; wing to ; culmen to Lengthof female to ; wing to 6; culmen .95 to 1. 51. Old-squaw. Harelda hyemalis (Linn.). (154) Synonyms: Old-wife, Long-tailed Duck, Sou-southerly, Coween, or Cowheen,Cockawee, Squealing Duck, Winter Duck.—Anas hyemalis, Linn., 1758.—Anas glacialis,Wils., 1814.—Harelda glacialis, Steph., 1824, and many authors.—Fuligula glacialis, Aud. Figure 26. The male is known from any other duck by its striking black and whiteplumage, comparatively short neck, and very long middle tail-feathers. Distribution.—-Northern Hemisphere; in North America south to thePotomac and the Ohio (more rarely to Florida and Texas), and California;breeds far northward. This duck is by no means uncommon during cold weather on the GreatLakes and is found with more or less regularity on many of the smallerinland lakes and streams. The fact that it winters regularly whereveropen water can be found has given it the name of Winter Duck, a name. Fig. 26. Old Baird, Brewer & Ridgways Water Birds of Nortli America. (Little, Brown & Co.) more generally applied to this than to any other one of the several specieswhich stay with us through the winter. It is most often found in fairsized flocks and these frequently unite into bands of several hundred infavorable localities. It is extremely noisy and the constant gabblingundoubtedly has earned it the names of Old-squaw and Old-wife. Like its relatives it feeds largely on fish and dives to considerable depthsin order to secure them. The late Dr. J. W. Velie told me that this was theregular winter duck on Lake Michigan off shore from St. Joseph, being fairly WATER BIRDS. 103 abundant some years while only a few were seen during other w
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