140 The Water-fowl Family 



others follow, and if the tolling is carefully man- 

 aged they are brought within close range. 



On Currituck Sound in 1895, I saw several 

 hundred broadbill killed in the vicinity, all of 

 this species. They frequent the larger rivers 

 near the coast. While hunting on the James 

 River one day in December from a brush blind 

 in one of the bays, I noticed a small flock of 

 broadbill late in the afternoon leading up a creek 

 near by. They were soon followed by another, 

 and continually until dark, little bunches of these 

 birds coming from the same direction in the same 

 line, disappeared through the woods, evidently 

 going to some pond farther in for the night. The 

 lesser broadbill winters in Florida and along the 

 Gulf Coast, and in places where protection is af- 

 forded they become very tame, in some instances 

 staying near the hotels and winter resorts. 



Their extensive distribution gives them a num- 

 ber of different names, and this species is variously 

 known as little broadbill, lesser scaup duck, little 

 bluebill, little black-head, river broadbill, raft- 

 duck. 



RING-NECKED DUCK 

 (Aythya collaris) 



Adult male Head, neck, breast, upper parts, and under tail-coverts, 

 black, with a sheen of reddish purple on the head, which has a 

 slight crest ; a narrow chestnut collar around the middle of the 

 neck ; a small triangular white spot on the chin ; wings, dark 

 brown with a green gloss ; speculum, gray ; under parts, white, 



