This remarkable Duck, with extraordinary facial development, is confined to a small area in Alaska. Their eclipse molt is so complete that they are unable to fly and fall victims to Eskimos who kill them in numbers, using the bodies for food and the skins for caps and clothes.
NEST: on tundra, composed almost entirely of feathers and down.
EGGS — 5 to 8: pale olive.
Very locally distributed in Alaska, on Bering Sea coast and from Point Barrow to Kuskokwim River. Winters in Aleutian Islands.