BUCKS. £1 



occurring on Big Lake all winter. Hanna saw a flock of 30 at Van 

 Buren November 28. Andnbon states that the food of this dnck 

 consists of small fishes, tadpoles, snails, acorns, beechnuts and 



Canvasback. Mania valisineria. 



The famous canvasback occurs as a moderately common migrant 

 and a few remain through the winter. It breeds from SSS 

 Nebraska northward, and on its southward migration reaches 4rkan 

 sas usually in November. McAtee found it numerous on Wapplocka" 

 Lake November 17-19, 1910, but it is not usually common Zre 

 One specimen was taken also on Menasha Lake November 2 and the 

 species has been reported from Big Lake (a few all winter) Osceola 

 and Helena. The canvasback feeds mainly on the seeds, tu'bers and 

 stems of various water plants (such as pondweed, eel grl Srow- 

 head, and rushes), and consumes also some mollusks, cruftec^n" and 



Lesser Scaup Duck. Mania affinis. 

 The scaup, or "blue-bill," as it is frequently called occurs re*u 

 larly m moderate numbers as a winter resident. On MenashaLake" 

 2 T(lZ h"! * , (19 ° 9) ' and SWen on Novembe^fi 6 

 AT« V £ 1S r t P ° rted Pl6ntiful at Bi ^ Lake abo "t the middle of 

 November (Eason) and one was killed there December 1^(1910) 

 Kundien reports "a few seen in Arkansas near Ft. Gibson Ind Ter "> 

 probably not far from Fort Smith. ' ' 



Rin e- necke <i Duck. Mania collaris. 



TurrellJVovpmhpr 17 iq t+ ■, , ^ovemoer id-lo and at 



Novembe 2? and DecLb er To ttT f ^t" ^ ^^ 



„. , , Gol den-eye. Clangula clangula americana 



this hardy northern duck is of rare occurrence south n f Af 

 aM Illinois but j occasionalJy found ^~~ -^ Missoun 



Brewster observed several on Big Lake December S, moJm 

 W. B. Eason, custodian of the Bio- Lake PlnK ,. I ' , 



there in Januarv ion ti, ° , b ' reports a S ood many 



1 Field and Forest, II, p. 130, 1877. ' 



