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however, and we did not see this duck in the Hooper Bay district 

 in 1924. 



Taber found 5 males and 4 females at Adak Island during the 

 winter of 1945-46. 



Stejneger says (1887), "Reported by Dybowski as taken on 

 Bering Island." Hartert (1920) mentions a specimen shot on 

 Copper Island on May 13, 1911. 



Thus, we find (as is the case with a number of species that re- 

 quire lowland marsh) that this duck nests along the lowlands on 

 the north side of Alaska Peninsula, possibly also on Unimak Is- 

 land, but it occurs only as a straggler in the Aleutians to the west. 



Anas acuta: Pintail 



Russian, Commander Islands: Vostrochvost (Stejneger) 



This widely distributed bird is not common in the Aleutian 

 district, but it does occur here and there throughout the entire 

 area. It is known to occur on Kodiak Island (Friedmann 1935; 

 Howell 1948), where Gabrielson found it plentiful in fall and 

 winter. Cahalane (1944) observed pintails in several localities in 

 the Katmai region in the autumn of 1940, but his report implies 

 that this species is not plentiful. Gabrielson noted a female on 

 Naknek River on July 19, 1940, and on July 23 several females, 

 evidently with broods, were noted on Kvichak River. He also 

 found it at Unimak, Cold Bay, Izembek Bay, Shumagin Islands, 

 and Kodiak-Afognak Islands; they were rather plentiful in the 

 last-mentioned localities in fall and winter. Einarsen (1922) 

 found pintails nesting near Ugashik in 1922, and Jaques (1930) 

 found it to be a common breeding bird around Port Moller in 

 June 1928. 



On May 23, 1936, we saw 2 pintails near Dillingham, Bristol 

 Bay, and, on May 26, 2 more pintails were seen near Snag Point. 

 On May 27 to 29, an occasional pair was seen on the flats near 

 Ugashik River, where they evidently were nesting. 



Residents on Unimak Island stated that pintails nest there, and 

 this was verified by my observations in 1925. In that year, they 

 were first seen at Urilia Bay on April 30. On May 4, Donald 

 Stevenson saw 10 males flying about, and on May 17 a pair was 

 seen at St. Catherine Cove. Pintails were also present on Izembek 

 Bay, and on June 30, near Point Grant, in the midst of nesting 

 Arctic terns and Pacific eiders, a nest of eight eggs was found. 

 Near Frosty Peak, a female that obviously had eggs, or young, 

 nearby was observed. 



Turner did not observe the pintail in the Aleutians during the 



