The Wild Fowl of the United States And British Possessions Or the Swan Geese
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They descend to a great depth, and remain under water for a long time, swimming great distances before rising. The principal food of this Duck is mussels and other bivalves, and it seeks these sometimes in water thirty or forty feet deep. During the breeding season, the note usually uttered when the sexes are together is a kind of Coo. The Pacific Eider is a handsome Duck, resembling somewhat the eastern species and weighs 232 WATER FOWL. from four to six pounds. It seems to dislike stormy days... and rough water, although it must get plenty of both during the year in the latitude it lives in, and at such times assembles in numbers along the beach, or on the rocks near the shore, or else swims about in the sheltered bays and inlets, where the force of the wind is not felt. The Eskimo name for the bird is Mi't huk. South of the mouth of the Yukon River the Pacific Eider plays a very important part, says Nelson, in some of the religious festivals of the natives, which occur in Decem- ber. It is a kind of an Eskimo " harvest-home.
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