. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . rs and many other insects. When it is considered that the minnows on which theBuffle-head feeds to a considerable extent eat the eggs oftrout and other food fishes, it seems probable that it is auseful bird, and certainly it is a ve
. A history of the game birds, wild fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states, including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . rs and many other insects. When it is considered that the minnows on which theBuffle-head feeds to a considerable extent eat the eggs oftrout and other food fishes, it seems probable that it is auseful bird, and certainly it is a very interesting one. Itsdiminution on the Atlantic sea-board has been deplorablyrapid. In 1870 Samuels regarded it as a very commonand well known bird in New England and abundant inmigration. At its present rate of decrease, another centurywill see its extinction as surely as the last century saw thatof the Great Auk and the Labrador Duck. Its rate of decreaseshould be watched, and, if necessary, a close season should bedeclared for several years in every State and province whereit breeds or which it visits in its annual migrations. It isunsafe to procrastinate in matters of this kind. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 139 OLD-SQUAW (Harelda hyemalis). Common or local names: Old Injun; Old Wife; Long-tail; South Southerly; Cockawee;Scoldenore; Scolder; Males. Winter. Spring. Length. — Male, variable up to 23 inches; female, about 16 inches. Adult Male in Winter. — Patch on side of head and neck blackish brown(occasionally nearly absent); side of head elsewhere light gray, some-times extending to forehead; rest of head, including eyelids, neck andupper breast, wliite; back, wings and tail dark brown or blackish; twolight pearl gray patches extending back over shoulders and scapulars;lower breast and upper belly brown, rest of belly white; two middletail feathers black, very long and narrow; outer tail feathers white;base and extreme tip of bill black, the rest pink and
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