Back Bay Basin,
Boston, Mass.
1909.
Feb. 27
(No 6)
of March 1 it was alone and on that of February 27
it kept for the most part by itself but on the latter
occasion it was repeatedly joined by typical females of
americana and once it swam a long distance in company
with the female having the yellow bar on the bill, both birds
being followed and most assiduously courted by seven
or eight full plumaged drakes of the Common Goldeneye
who, moreover, continued to thus devote themselves to the
typical Barrow's female after the other bird of the same
sex (the aberrant americana) had left her joined another
group.
Whistler courtship.
Clangula islandica female wooed by drakes of Clangula americana.
  I had not been long at the lumber pile when the
wind died away completely. During the next half hour
the entire Basin was, for the most part, without a
ripple and shining in the sunlight like a burnished
mirror. The haze, too, had almost wholly disappeared.