602 THE CANVAS-BACK. 
that our southern neighbors may have an abundant supply in winter, and 
idle to expect the hunters of the Pamlico to refrain from shooting Redheads 
in January that we may have enough and to spare in March. ‘The only real 
remedy lies in national legislation, which shall take account of the entire life 
of a 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 
Licking Reservoir. Photo by the Author. 
WHERE THE REDHEAD COURTS DESTRUCTION. 
Taken at the 
which they obtain by diving. Like their better known relatives the Canvas- 
backs, they eat the eel grass (Vallisneria spiralis L.), commonly called wild 
celery ; and their flesh cannot then nor at any other time be distinguished from 
that of the latter birds. 
This duck is unusually prolific, and Rev. Herbert K. Job, who has done 
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. 
A. O. U. No. 147. Aythya vallisneria (Wils.). 
Description.—Adult male: Similar to preceding species, but larger, head 
larger, bill longer, and no evident angle between bill and forehead; head and 
