No. 26.] 



BIRD NAMES. 



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No. 26. Female. 



Young. Practically like adult female. 



Length sixteen and a half to seventeen and a half inches ; 

 extent twenty-four and a half to twenty-seven inches : bill much 

 narrower towards end ; length on top one inch or a trifle more 

 (from feathers to tip). 



The range of this species includes the northern part of North 

 America. It is found, in winter, as far south as Massachusetts, 

 and on very rare occasions a little farther south. In many places 

 along the Maine coast it is a commoD and well-known bird. 



HARLEQUIN DUCK of authors generally: PAINTED DUCK 

 and MOUNTAIN DUCK of " Hudson's Bay residents," according 

 to Fauna Boreali- Americana, 1831 : known about Mud and Seal 

 Islands, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia, as ROCK DUCK, so says Eev. 

 J. H. Langille, in Our Birds in their Haunts, 1884. 



Along the coast from New Brunswick to Salem, Mass., LORD 

 AND LADY; farther south than this the species is rare, and I 

 have no note of hearing gunners name it. Known also as 

 SQUEALER at Machias Port, Me., and as LORD simply, at Jones- 

 port, same state. Edwards, in Natural History of Birds, Part II., 

 1747, speaks of this "the Dusky and Spotted Duck" being sent 

 from Newfoundland, where the "fishers call it the Lord." 



