ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARROT = 353 
narrower bill which she wears, but I think it 
will need a more than commonly close ob- 
server to pick her out among a number of speci- 
mens of the ordinary species. 
This is a bird of wide range, breeding any- 
where along our northern border, thence any 
distance toward cold weather. It may be that 
the greater number nest in the Rockies. It 
seems to be very uncommon in New England, 
but is said to breed in the interior of Maine in 
the lake region. A few are taken each year in 
Penobscot Bay. 
This duck has the same music box arrange- 
ment in its wings as has our own species, and 
decoys readily to ‘‘tolers’’? of the ordinary 
Whistler, though it is said that in localities and 
on streams where both birds frequent they are 
apt to keep apart, each to his own kind. It 
must be a hard matter in the mating time, with 
the madness of that happy season in his blood, 
for young Mr. Whistler to know when he has 
chosen wisely and well—whether he has chosen 
Miss Clangula Americana, or her cousin, Miss 
Islandica. But even wise men have sometimes 
shown little wisdom at such crises, and he has 
this for consolation—that if he has blundered 
