SAND DUNES AND SALT MARSHES 



white and jet black, and he bears a long and 

 slender tail which he jauntily cocks up at an 

 angle. In Labrador these ducks were spoken 

 of as ^^ hounds " by Cartwright over a hun- 

 dred years ago, and they still bear this name 

 there, and it is an appropriate one, for the 

 voice of a flock is like the music of a pack of 

 hounds in full cry. According to Preble the 

 Cree Indians along the Athabasca call this 

 bird ca-ca-wee, the Chipewayans of the Mac- 

 kenzie River refer to it as a-ha-Uk; while the 

 Eskimos give it the name a-Jiau-Un. All of 

 these names are very fair attempts to repeat 

 some of the notes used by these birds. Will- 

 iam Wood in his " New Englands Prospect " 

 says '' The Oldwives, be a foule that never 

 leave tatling day or night.'' 



Occasionally one may see in May a few old 

 squaws that have changed to the summer 

 dress in which they appear like negatives of 

 their winter plumage. Instead of having a 

 white neck and a dark spot about the eye, 

 they have a black neck and a light spot. The 

 color of the feathers near the eye remains in 

 reality nearly the same— a mouse gray— but 

 it appears dark with a white neck, and white 

 with a black neck. 



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