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with us are paired. Some, however, remain ill flocks, and it is notice- 

 able that those are pffneipally iiiales and become very tame, permitting 

 oiie to approach Ki times within sixty yards. The following aaies horn 

 Mr. Deane #111 show liow late they are fciliid at English Laie: 



1888. May G.-flocM 6f 5!00; May 20; st fldfck of 20; June 5, flofck of 13. 



1890. May 4. — Sawman'y; May 11, manjt still remain. 



1891. May 10. — Abundant; flock of 20t) on the Lake, on river mostly paired; 



May 31, flock of 25. 

 I89l Jdrie 6.— Sa<rolife'*' cripple." 



This duck returns from its silaiHltfr home iSte in Septdinber or tfarly 

 im October. Mr. Deane hoteS the fit* d!t BiigMsh Mfce SieptbmbeF 32, 

 1889, and in 1886' th« la3t of th€i season waS shot 0c*tob«r 20. Usually 

 bertween these datesj- it *ouM arppeaPjr the bulk are aotedh G^tefi, fi-oiw- 

 ever, its stay is- leMgtlletled iato Novelnberj ia faetj some years itS 

 disappearance depends upon the closing oi thifl stream^ by ioe. In 

 18Q0 TJlrey and Wallace ni&ted a specimen taiketf at I(6ii|g Laike Nbrfein- 

 ber 15, and in 1891 Mr. Deatfe ^epOrfted^ the' KtokakSfe Riter it Eng- 

 lish Lake all open, December 21, and four Lesser Scaup DuekS Shot, 

 and ad-ded,. sawral flocks- of these Scaup DuGks were o'bteerved'DetsKtii- 

 ber 19. From this it will not be uneip^eTcted to ha^e- them' winter in 

 this State mild winters. This was formerly the most abitndftnt (Sucfi 

 on our western riTerSjand wintered along the lowetf Mississippi. There 

 it occurred in such flocks that' AuduboA said it was known as the 

 "Flocking Fowl.'' 



43. (150). Aythya eollaris (jDMov). 

 Blijig-nidcl«6a Dtttatf. 



Adutf Male. — ^fie'ad, ne'clc, chest, undeft'ail coverts and upper parts 

 blaick, the head with a violet-purple gloss and middle of neck with a 

 more or less distinct collar of chestnut; chin with a triangulax white 

 spot; bill transversely banded with black; grayish-white and plumbe- 

 ous. Adult Female. — Top of head and back of neck, dark brown; rest of 

 head and neck paler, becoming nearly or quite white anteriorly and on 

 throat; chest, sides and flanks deep fulvous brown; the speculum 

 bluish-gray, as in the male. Female much resembles female Eedhead, 

 but is smaller. 



Length, 15.50-18.00; bill, 1.75-2.00; tarsus, 1.30-1.45; wing, 7.50. 



Eange. — North America, breeding from Iowa, southern Wisconsin 

 and Maine northward. Winters from southern Illinois southward to 

 Guatemala and West Indies. 



