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of the United States, and less regularly on the Great Lakes and 

 larger rivers of the interior ; south to Mexico and Lower California. 

 In Missouri the Butterball is a fairly common transient visitant 

 in early spring and late fall. It is sometimes taken in February, 

 even in the western and northern part of the state (February 5, 

 1904, Kansas City, Bryant; February 22, 1885, Keokuk, Prae- 

 ger), but small troops are met with most frequently between 

 March 1 and April 10, exceptionally later (May 4, 1892, Keokuk, 

 Currier). In fall the earliest record is October 10, 1904, (Kansas 

 City, Bryant) and the latest December 4, 1892 (Keokuk, Currier). 

 The largest number of dates were obtained between October 10 

 and November 20. 



154. Harelda hyemalis (Linn.). Old-squaw. 



Anas hyemalis. Clangula hyemalis. Harelda glacialis. Anas glacialis. 

 Anas longicauda. Long-tailed Duck. South-southerly. Old-wife. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern hemisphere; breeding along the Arctic 

 coast, and wintering from the Aleutian chain down the whole 

 Pacific coast to California, and on the Atlantic coast from St. 

 Lawrence to North Carolina; less regularly on the Great Lakes 

 and larger rivers of the interior south to the Ohio River, excep- 

 tionally even to Louisiana (February 28, 1885, and February 13, 

 1899). 



In Missom'i an irregular w^inter visitant between November 20 

 and April 1. Old birds are always rare, but j^oung birds are some- 

 times common. 



155. HisTRioNicusHiSTRioNicus (Linn.). Harlequin Duck. 



Anas hisirionica. Fuligula histrionica. Histrionicus torquatus. Histrion- 

 icus minittis. Anas minuta. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern North America, Iceland and Eastern 

 Asia. Breeds in America from Newfoundland, Labrador and the 

 east coast of Greenland, south of the Arctic Circle, on rapid 

 streams of the interior west to Alaska and British Columbia, and 

 in the mountains of the western United States south to lat. 38°. 

 In winter irregularly to the northern United States from the 

 coast of Maine to California, but everywhere rare and apparently 

 on the decrease. 



In Missouri a rare winter visitant. One was taken March 21, 

 1897, in Montgomery Co. by Mr. E. M. Parker, and another, 

 taken near St. Louis, October 29, is in the Hurter collection. 



