ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARROT 351 
home—one of the few times that men are will- 
ing to quarrel for the chance to toil for the com- 
mon good. 
The Whistler’s flesh is held in slight esteem 
during the winter months when its diet is made 
up of mussels and shellfish from the unfailing 
larder of the sea, the last refuge of our ducks in 
cold weather, but on the inland waters where 
they are among the earliest visitors in the 
spring, and during the brighter times of sum- 
mer and early fall when a vegetable diet is af- 
forded, they are more than passable for the ta- 
ble. Indeed, at any time they are not so strong 
in their flavor as their seafowl neighbors. 
How dull and monotonous these summer days 
must be after their winter-long struggle to keep 
their bodies from the soup-kettle and their skins 
from the taxidermists’ shelves! 
ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARROT. BAR- 
ROW’S GOLDEN-EYE. 
(Clangula islandica.) 
A western relative of our typical bird, of 
somewhat rare occurrence in the east. It dif- 
fers a little from the common variety in its 
