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barrow’s gorden-eye (glaucionetta islandica) 
The butter-ball, or buffle head (charitonetta 
albeola) is another common duck all over the 
country. But where we have so many larger 
and better ducks they are little sought for, 
and are generally considered poor shooting. 
Yet I recall one occasion when a friend and I 
were shooting on a couple of foothill ponds 
Avhere many of these little ducks had con- 
gregated, they furnished us with fine sport. 
The larger ducks were soon scared away, but 
the little butter-balls would not leave. One 
of us was stationed at each pond and we soon 
had them all in the air. They are a small 
mark and swift flyers when well in the air 
and gave us fully an hour of really fine sport. 
The old squaw, or long-tailed duck {clangiila 
hyemalis) comes but little into California, 
though a few are killed each year in Washington 
PUPPY PUCK (ERISM-^TURA BUBIDA) 
