366 FEATHERED GAME 



of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is seldom 

 found in this latitude except during the cold 

 weather. 



From the time of their visits and the dis- 

 tance of their haunts from the mainland few 

 of their numbers fall a prey to the gunners, 

 and the * t Lords and Ladies, ' ' as they are named 

 by seafowl shooters, are very rarely occupants 

 of our game bags. But this is small cause for 

 grief, since aside from their bright plumage 

 and their beauty as "specimens" they are of 

 little value. 



If a shot is fired at a flock on the wing they 

 will sometimes plunge from the air into the 

 water and after swimming below the surface 

 again take wing, coming up a hundred yards 

 away seeming the instant they reappear to 

 dash from the depths into the air at full speed, 

 leaving the gunner inexperienced in their ways 

 and who perhaps had thought that by some mi- 

 raculous chance he had killed the entire flock, to 

 find that he doesn't care for that kind of duck 

 after all. I passed through just such an ex- 

 perience once, and remember yet how disgusted 

 and surprised I was when after steaming up 

 to where the whole flock should have been dead 



