the c \N\ \s-r. u:k. 



that our southern neighbors may have an abundant supply in winter, and 

 idle i" expecl the hunters of the Pamlico to refrain from shooting Redheads 

 in Januar) that we ma) have enough and to span- in .March. The only real 

 remed) lies in national legislation, which shall take account of the entire life 

 i .; given species, and accord it protection at the times and places of greatest 

 danger, irrespective of local and unenlightened opinion. 



The Redhead occurs with us in small flocks, and these sometimes visit 

 the smaller lakes and ponds. Their food consists largely of vegetable matter 



WHERE THE REDHEAD COURTS DESTRUCTION. 



which the\ obtain by diving. Like their better known relatives the Canvas- 

 hacks, the) cat the eel grass (Vallisneria spiralis L.), commonly called wild 

 celery: and their flesh cannoi then nor at am other time he distinguished from 

 that of the latter birds. 



This duck is unusually prolific, and Rev. Herbert K. Job, win. has <b me 

 such excellent work with the waterfowl, once found in a Dakota slough, a set 

 of twenty two eggs,- all, as he believed, the product of one bird. 



No. 294. 

 CANVAS-BACK. 



\. O. U. No. 147. Aythya vallisneria (Wils.). 



Description. — Adult male: Similar to preceding species, hut larger, hea< 

 larger, hill longer, and no evident angle between hill and forehead; head anr 



