DIVERS—-COLD-WEATHER DIVERS. 3i7/ 
bottoms bare of vegetation, thereby destroying what 
fine flavor they might have obtained from the celery 
beds if they had been more abstemious in their feed- 
ing. The second issue comes from the middle of the 
4ritish Possessions about September, gradually work- 
ing downward, both interior and coastwise. The third 
comes down full feathered, like the second, generally 
with a rush, frequently mixing with bluebills in the 
same manner that they mix with canvas-backs in the 
spring. 
They feed on open lakes, both shallow and deep, if 
food be present; they also like to drift into the timber, 
where pin oak mast abounds, especially as they ap- 
proach the South. Upon the coasts they drift into 
bays and inlets and feed near the shore. Their play- 
grounds are in open water upon large lakes, or some 
distance from the shore on the coasts, where. they 
float about in rafts or flocks. They are easily lured 
to shore by tolling, either by a red handkerchief raised 
and lowered, or by some odd moving object, for they 
are most inquisitive ‘birds; sometimes, a dog is trained 
to run along the shore and bark at the water’s edge, 
the gunner tying concealed close by; even after being 
shot at, they soon seem to forget the occurrence and 
gradually work in again to the object which had pre- 
viously attracted them. Should, however, a few bald- 
pates be mixed up with them, these soon spoil the 
game; being more suspicious, the bald-pates will keep 
turning and swimming back without approaching 
within shot, drawing the redheads with them. Even 
upon a flight, the bald-pates lead many flocks of red- 
heads away out of shot by their shying away from any 
