Birds of the Adirondack Begion. 
C. H, Merriam. 
162. Harelda glacialis {Linn.) Leach. Old Squaw.— O ccurs dur- 
ing migration. 
Notes . Shelter Island, N.Y. 
over the decoys. 
O.&O. X. May. 1885, p. V 0 
3. Harelda glacialis. — While yatching in North Oyster Bay, Long 
Island Sound, on July 12, 1884, I shot a fine male ‘Old Wife.’ The bird 
was apparently well and uninjured, and was swimming about in a lively 
manner as we approached. My first shot either missed or only wounded 
it slightly, for it instantly rose and was flying off rapidly when I killed it 
with my second barrel. I skinned it, and could not find any marks of 
old wounds or other injuries. It was in full plumage and differed from 
the adults usually taken in this latitude by the greater amount of orange 
brown on the back and scapulars. The dark zone on the breast was also 
of a lighter shade than usual. — De L. Berier, 52 Broad-way , New York 
Auk, 3, April, 1880. p. 2.%/ • 
City. 
3irde Tioga, Co, N.Y. Alden Lcring-, 
623. Old Wife or South Southerly. Com- 
mon. Comes up the Susquehanna in the 
spring and fall in flocks of fifteen to thirty. 
They are expert swimmers, divers and fliers. 
Living on small fish. Like numbers of other 
ducks when wounded it dives and puts just 
the end of the bill out of water. They are 
very tame but are not good eating. Out of 
the crop of one of these birds I took 52 small 
pike, most of them an inch long, and six or 
seven two inches long. A full-grown male 
often weighs two pounds. The favorite days 
for these ducks are when it is cold and the 
wind is blowing just after rain. 
XV, Jjga Sa 1890, 
