38 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bllll. 



The only references to this species appear in a paragraph in 

 Merriam : " A very rare winter visitor. Linsley took it at Strat- 

 ford, Conn. Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, says that this species 

 was 'sent from Connecticut to Mrs. Blackburn in England.' 

 Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 559, 1785." x 



Somateria dresseri Sharpe. Eider. 



Connecticut records. Linsley states that one or two Eider 

 Ducks were killed at Stratford by Mr. Lucius Curtis. 1 Grinnell 

 informed Merriam that he had seen a specimen killed on the 

 Sound near Mil ford, May 29, 1877, and that two, probably of this 

 species, w r ere shot there in the fall of 1874. 1 Branford, Dec. 2, 

 1879, two shot, one in coll. of Dr. Fred. Sumner Smith of Ches- 

 ter (J. H. S.). 



Mr. Alanson Ganung shot a young male, Dec. 20, 1909, off 

 West Haven. It is now in the collection of L. B. B. This is the 

 only recent record for this state. 



Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus). King Eider. 



A rare winter straggler in the Sound. 



Connecticut records. Nov. 4, 1883, an adult female taken 

 near Milford by E. L. Munson 2 (now in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Nov. 

 17, 1886, one shot at Portland (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Oct. 22, 1890, 

 a female found in the bag of some sportsmen at Stony Creek by 

 A. E. V. (now in Peabody Museum) ; Nov. 11, 1893, one received 

 by J. H. S. from Mr. Henry Noyes of Lyme; Nov., 1900, a 

 female taken near New Haven (in coll. of L. C. S.) ; winter, 

 1902-3, a female taken in New Haven Harbor by A. Ganung; 

 Nov. 14, 1904, an adult male positively identified at Branford 

 by L. C. S. ; Oct. 26, male, Nov. 14, 1907, female, taken at 

 Stratford (in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Nov. 2, 1908, two young shot 

 at Stratford; Nov. 4, 1908, a young male shot at New Haven by 

 W. Ganung (in coll. of L. B. B.). Linsley also records obtain- 

 ing two specimens at Stratford. C. L. Rawson states that a 

 stuffed specimen is in Noank, shot off Groton Long Point in the 

 winter of 1884. 3 



Oidemia americana Swainson. Scoter. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 127. 



2 O. and O., xii, 9, p. 156. 

 9 0. and O., x, 5, p. 74. 



