28 THE GAME BIRDS 
colored bill, while the gloss of the head is 
purple in the Barrow’s and green in the 
American. 
Both birds get their common name from 
the whistling Som given off by the wings in 
flight. 
D6. aBURE LE AeA). BU PERER =p Adno: 
SPER I= DUCK. DIRE. 
Charitonetta albeola. 
Back and head of male black, the latter 
with a large white patch extending from the 
eye back to the edge of the nape, fort ming a con- 
tinuous patch. The head is v ery puffy; hair 
cut a la pompadour ; neck and under parts 
white. The female has no orited head; back 
brown, under parts dirty white, with white 
wing patch and onside of head. Bill of drake 
dull blue; of female, dusky. Feet of drake 
flesh-color ; of female, blue-gray, with dark 
webs. Eyes brown. W eielit about 18 ozs. ; 
female a little less. 
Habitat — North America at large. The 
male of this bird is a beauty and no mistake, 
but Heaven help the man who tries to eat 
one. I can eat almost anything when I am 
hunery, but I prefer to hunger rather than 
eat a Dipper. ‘They can dive like a Kanaka, 
and are only excelled by the little Grebe (the 
hell-diver of the vernacular), which can elude 
a rifle ball and dodge a sunbeam. Their 
habits are like their relatives, the Golden-eyes. 
