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Sept (To Dec Cambridge casual T V)

26 to Dec. 4. Cambridge, casual T. V., Apl.; Sept. and Oct. Eggs, eight to twelve, buffy white or pale bluish white, 2.20 × 1.50. SEA DUCKS.

The Pintail is frequently found associated with the Black Duck and Widgeon. As a rule it is voiceless, but is said to utter "a lowtoned quack at night." The long neck and tail of the male make its make its identification easy even at a distance. 144. Aix sponsa (Linn.). WOOD DUCK. Ad. 8. - A line from the bill over the eye, a similar line at the base of the side of the crest, and some , and some of the elongated crest-feathers white; throat, a band from it up the side of it up the side of the head, and a wider one to the nape, white; rest of the cheeks and crown cheeks and crown green with purplish reflections; a white band in front of the wings; breast wings; breast and a spot at either side of the base of the tail purplish chestnut, the former chestnut, the former spotted with white; belly white; sides buffy ochraceous, finely barred with finely barred with black, the longer flank feathers tipped with wider bars of black and white black and white ; back greenish brown; scapulars blacker; speculum steel-blue ; primaries tipped with greenish blue. -Ad. 9. -Throat and a stripe from the eye backward white; crown purplish brown; sides of the head ashy brown; breast brown; breast and sides grayish brown streaked with buffy; belly white; back olive-brown glossed with greenish; inner primaries tipped with greenish blue. Im.-The blue. Im. - The im. & resembles the 2. L., 18.50; W., 9.00; Tar., 1.35; B., 1.30. Range.-North America; breeds from Florida to Hudson Bay, and winters southward to southern Mexico, Cuba, and Jamaica.

Washington, uncommon P. R. Long Island, uncommon T. V. and W. V.,