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lata, its white spots showing plainly as it rides the 
waves or rises to the surface from diving, contrasting 
with O. americanus; but, if far out from shore, the 
white upper wing coverts are hardly distinguishable 
from O. ferspicillata’s striped, skunk-like head. 
They wander down the Mississippi and have been 
killed on Big Lake, above Grand Tower, at New 
Madrid, on the Missouri side, and at Reelfoot Lake, 
Tennessee, in the fall. It is most common on the sea- 
coasts, drifting inshore to feed in the bays, and float- 
ing outside with other divers. It feeds upon the same 
kinds of food as the other scoters. 
The principal distinguishing features are, beneath 
the eye, secondaries and upper wing coverts white; 
feet scarlet, iris yellowish white. Length 22.00; wing 
11.75; tarsus 2.00; extent 34.00; middle toe 2.85. 
GeNus Clangula. 
Clangula hyemalis—O.vvb-Squaw, OLb-Wire.—Hab- 
itat—British North America, to extreme north and 
islands beyond; south down both coasts; occasionally 
the interior, through the chain of lakes, Mississippi 
River, to the Gulf of Mexico. This handsome duck, 
with a long tail in the male in full plumage, answers 
to the names of long-tailed duck, old-squaw, old-wife, 
south-south-southerly, old scold and swallow-tailed 
duck. It is an irregular visitant during some win- 
ters through the interior. It may be met with on the 
Missouri, Mississippi and the Great Red River of the 
North during the late fall; on the chain of lakes form- 
ing Winnipeg Lake in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 
on the Lake of the Woods and Rainy River, lakes 
