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Teals winter at Unimak Island, according to residents, and, 

 according to Cahn, they winter as far west as Unalaska Island. 



Mareca penelope: European Widqeon 



Russian, Commander Islands: Svistsch or Svistun (Stejneger) 



Four specimens have been collected on the Pribilof Islands, 

 and Dall (1873) records a specimen taken at Unalaska, October 

 12, 1871. He says it is "not uncommon among the ducks brought 

 in by the native hunters of that locality." He considered it to be 

 a winter visitor, "migrating about May 1st." 



On June 21, 1937, we found a pair at a lake back from the 

 beach at the more southerly harbor on Kiska Island. As the two 

 birds flew by, I clearly saw the buffy coloration on the head of 

 the male. At that season of the year, a pair suggests nesting. 



Stejneger (1887) records this bird as being a visitor to the 

 Commander Islands in migration. 



Mareca americana: American Widgeon 



The American widgeon, or baldpate, is rare in the Aleutian 

 district. On May 27, 1936, 2 or 3 were observed on the flat marshes 

 near Ugashik River, and 2 males were seen May 29. We saw none 

 to the westward, though Gabrielson records seeing a male and a 

 female on a pond near Izembek Bay on June 6, 1942, and saw 

 others at Port Moller, July 7, 1946. 



Osgood (1904) mentions specimens taken by McKay at Cape 

 Constantine and Ugashik in September 1881. 



Hine (1919) observed this duck occasionally in the Katmai 

 Region in 1919, and he obtained specimens near the mouth of 

 Katmai River. 



Friedmann (1935) records seeing the baldpate at Kodiak, and 

 a specimen was taken. He also (1937) reports that bones of this 

 duck were found in middens on Little Kiska Island. Gabrielson 

 records that the species was "common" in the Kodiak-Afognak 

 Islands in the fall and winter months of 1943 and 1944. 



Howell (1948) reports as follows for Kodiak: "Two were seen 

 May 31, at Middle Bay, and one on June 16, at Bell's Flats," in 

 1944. 



Turner states that it is rarely seen on Attu Island. 



Finally, Stejneger (1887) found a dead bird of this species 

 among the sand dunes of Bering Island. 



