OLD S^UAW : LONO-TAILED DUCK. 



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aVmndaut, and pi<)l)al)ly 1 needing. During iny visit to the latter 

 point, extending throun-li the lattei- half of May and the first half of 

 June, not a single in(li\i(hial of this species was seen, nor was it 

 found by me along tlie coast farther to the north.' 



Dr. Hatch, in his i-eport on the birds of Minnesota, says of the 

 Buffle-head : 'Such has been in}'^ confidence that to a limited extent 

 they breed here, that I have left no opportunity unimproved to 

 discover the jinal proof by the finding of a verita})le nest. But for 

 this testimony 1 must still wait, notwithstanding the oft-repeated 

 assurances of several persons that they have found them. In one 

 instance my hopes had been nearly realized, when T found the nest to 

 be that of the Wood Duck." 



Tn Southern Ontario they are among the first to arrive in spring 

 and the last to leave in the fall, l)eing apparently (juite hardy and 

 iih\e to stand the colfl. 



Gents CLANGULA Leach. 

 CLANGFLA HYEMALI8 (Lixx.). 



•")+. Old Squaw; Long-tailed Duck. (154) 



Tail, of fourteen narrow pointed feathers, in the male in summer the central 

 ones very slender and much elongated, nearly or quite equalling the wing; nail 

 of bill occupying the whole tip; seasonal changes remarkable. Male, in .smth- 

 vier: — With the back and the long narrowly lanceolate scapulars varied with 

 reddish-brown, wanting in winter, when this color is exchanged for pearly -gray 

 or white ; general color, blackish or very dark brown ; below from the breast 

 abruptly, white; no white on the \\ing; sides of liead, f)luml)eous-gray ; in 



