304 FEATHERED GAME 
he will never find it out, since there are few 
prying scientists among his acquaintances to 
inform him of his mistake and so destroy his 
happiness. 
THE BUFFLEHEAD. DIPPER. BUT- 
TERBALL. 
(Charitonetta albeola.) 
At different seasons of the year this pretty 
little duck is found in all parts of North 
America, breeding from the northern States of 
the Union into the Arctic regions, and winter- 
ing in the West Indies, Mexico and Central 
America. It is also a chance visitor to Europe. 
A fat and chunky little fellow he is, well 
meriting his name, the ‘‘Butter-ball,’’ as also 
his other title, earned by his undoubted talent 
for disappearing beneath the water when dan- 
ger threatens,—because of which he is called 
the ‘‘Spirit Duck’’ and ‘‘Dipper.’’ In appear- 
ance he is a miniature ‘‘whistler,’”’ the black and 
white plumage being arranged much as in the 
dress of that bird, and the little fellow’s head 
has the same puffy, hair-on-end innocence of 
