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The Buffle-Head Dick, or Butter-Ball, is a small, 

 tree-nesting duck, so pretty and so very odd-looking thai 

 when seen every one wishes to know its oame; and when 

 named, it is not soon forgotten. When you see ;i short- 

 bodied, plump-looking little duck, black above and white 

 below, with a head that is a great round mass of sofl feathers, 



TlIK BUFFLE-HEAD, <>K BUTTER BALL 



half snow white, and half a rich metallic mixture of purple, 

 violet and green that is a Butter-Ball, and nothing else. 

 Wherever seen, it commands instant attention. 



Unfortunately, this picturesque little creature does noi 

 like our country as a summer residence, for it breeds from 

 Maine, Iowa and British Columbia, northward, and return- 

 to us only when snapping cold weather heralds the approach 

 of winter. On the water it is the most nervous and watch- 

 1 Char-i-ton-et'ta aUbe-o'la. Average length, 1 1.50 inches. 



