THE OLD SQUAW 357 
ish below and white speculum. Head less puffy 
in the lay of its feathers, snuffy brown, with a 
small gray patch behind the eye. In her mark- 
ings she resembles very closely the female of 
the American golden-eye made up a vest pocket 
edition. 
The Bufflehead averages from twelve to fif- 
teen inches in length and in extent from twenty- 
two to twenty-four inches. As may be seen, 
the smallest of our. ducks. 
THE OLD SQUAW. 
(Harelda hyemalis.) 
The wind sweeps along the gray water in 
heavy gusts, driving dead leaves seaward and 
piling foam and drift on the island shores. The 
long rollers break on the ledges in heavy mono- 
tone, thundering across seaweed-covered reefs 
in foam and feathery spray. The oak trees 
creak and gride against each other where they 
margin the shore and the smaller branches rat- 
tle and clash together. Withered leaves and 
dead grass stems rustle drearily in the breeze. 
Not a song-bird cheers the woods with melody. 
Not a shore-bird’s whistle gladdens beach or 
