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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1920 
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9 East 40th Street New York City, N. Y. 
median feathers of tail black, central 
pair elongated, outer feathers white ; bill 
orange; legs and feet bluish gray. In 
summer: Head, neck and upper parts 
sooty black, excepting cheeks and sides 
of forehead which are gray; under parts 
white; bill black with pinkish band; legs 
and feet bluish white. Tail longer than 
in winter. Length, eighteen to twenty- 
three inches, according to development 
of tail. 
Female: Head, neck and lower parts 
soiled white, excepting forehead and 
crown which are dusky; upper parts 
dark brown; tail grayish brown, not 
elongated as in male. Plumage of both 
sexes varies with age and season. 
THE HARLEQUIN DUCK 
T HE harlequin duck is so named be 
cause of the fantastic markings of 
the drake. Head and neck dark 
gray glossed with violet and marked 
with white spots and stripes; forehead, 
crown and nape black; upper parts gray- 
ish blue, changing to blue-black on rump 
and upper tail coverts; white crescent- 
shaped stripe on shoulder; irregular 
white spots and bars on back; breast and 
abdomen gray; .sides and flanks rufous; 
speculum deep bluish violet; bill, legs 
and feet bluish gray. Length, seventeen 
to eighteen inches. Female: Head, neck 
and upper parts dark brown, head 
marked with white spots; breast, sides 
and flanks reddish brown; abdomen 
white; bill, legs and feet same as male. 
The harlequin is another cold weather 
duck and breeds far within the Arctic 
Circle. It ranges from the Arctic re- 
gions to the Middle States and Cali- 
fornia. It is very rare and of no im- 
portance to the sportsman. Even that 
noted ornithologist, Elliot, says he has 
never seen one alive. 
The Labrador duck, or pied duck, was 
formerly found along the North Atlantic 
Coast, breeding from Labrador north- 
ward, and migrating southward to Long 
Island. It is doubtless now extinct. 
They were formerly to be seen in Fulton 
Market, New York. Center of crown 
black ; rest of head and upper neck 
white; hack, black; wings white; front 
and sides of upper breast white; lower 
breast and belly black. Length, about 
twenty inches. The cause of this duck’s 
extinction is unknown. — Chapman. 
Stellars duck, listed as a straggler to 
our coasts, is found only on the coasts 
of Behring Sea. 
BIMINI-ISLE OF MYTH 
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which lies approximately 9% miles south 
of the Isle of Bimini, this course being 
necessary to all who anticipate reaching 
the island after nightfall, as the channel 
to Bimini Bay is without lights or mark- 
ers. 
Arrivng at Gun Key at 3 A. M., we 
anchored until day-break and then start- 
ed on the last leg of our trip, anticipat- 
ing great sport in fishing the waters that 
are advertised to be “Teeming with fish 
of every description.” Sad to relate, how- 
ever, the tarpon, amber jack, bone fish, 
barracuda, tuna, bonita, grouper, mack- 
erel, wahoo, sailfish, black and blue tur- 
bet, squirrel fish, sand-congo and count- 
less other species that are announced as 
Bimini attractions, failed to materialize, 
and the entire 9% mile trolling with 
three lines produced one barracuda and 
one grouper, both of which were torn 
from the hook by sharks. 
The Isle of Bimini itself is fair to be- 
hold, but the facts as they appear strong- 
ly contradict all statements pertaining to 
its being “An Unexplored Sportsman’s 
Haunt, Teeming with Fish and Game.” 
The island is without sanitation or 
drinking water other than that provided 
by infrequent rains. There is no wire- 
less .service from the club to Miami or 
elsewhere. The natives are sickly and 
undernourished. This is easily under- 
stood when it is considered that their 
existance depends largely on sponging 
and the making- of a few commercial art- 
icles from grass and sisel, and that their 
food consists largely of conk and land 
crabs, with an occasional grunt that 
has been caught after several hours’ pa- 
tient fishing. A search for the countless 
numbers of wild game, which were adver- 
tised as inhabiting the island, resulted 
in locating a lake where the water is 
shallow and the mangrove muck deep 
and treacherous. The sight of a few 
shelldrake and an isolated snipe was all 
that rewarded our efforts. Wild pigeons, 
black and canvass-back duck and other 
birds, if they ever existed, must have 
migrated. 
The only excuse for Bimini, as an at- 
traction is the fact that under British 
rule it is not affected by prohibition, but 
even in this respect disappointment 
awaits the visitor as the supply of whis- 
key, gin and rum has been depleted. 
Diligent inquiry failed to produce any 
evidence that the Bimini Rod and Gun 
Club is a chartered organization. Avail- 
able literature does not contain the 
names of any officers and bears only the 
announcement / that the Executive Offi- 
cers are located in Miami, Florida. 
Bimini as a haunt for sportsmen stands 
today utterly devoid of any of thp essen- 
tials that would justify the term “Sports- 
man’s Paradise.” Light or heavy tackle 
fishing, .surf casting, harpooning, still 
fishing, shooting, tennis, archery, or 
other attractions that would appeal to 
the sportsman are non-existant. A jour- 
ney there in quest of sport may justly 
be termed a loss of time. 
THE 22 SOLVES 
IT 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 134) 
fertile field of applied ballistics have 
solved the problem of putting rifle shoot- 
ing within the reach, means and oppor- 
tunities of the average American. The 
answer was found to repose in a very 
small object— an inexpensive, available, 
lo-power, rim-fire cartridge commonly 
known as the “22 long-rifle.” 
With properly constructed rifles, chai 
bered and bored for this ammunition, 
guns that can be readily procured from 
any sporting-goods store without either 
