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to be the attraction. This was definitely reported to be the case 

 at False Pass, where the ducks gather at the cannery docks during 

 the fishing season. 



Aythya affinis: Lesser Scaup 



Friedmann (1935) lists the lesser scaup in the avifauna of 

 Kodiak Island on the basis of osseous remains found in middens. 

 We did not identify this duck on our expeditions, and we as- 

 sumed that the scaups observed were of the larger form. 



Aythya fuligula: Tufted Duck 



Howland Wilson (1948) added this species to the list of Aleu- 

 tian birds, bearing out our assumption that it could easily occur 

 among the western islands. He reports seeing 2 males and 2 fe- 

 males in a little pothole, inland from Murder Point on Attu Is- 

 land on May 23 and 24, 1945; he watched them for some time, 

 and the "tufts of long, loose feathers which streamed down from 

 the nape of each male" were noted in detail. 



Bucephala clangula: Common Goldeneye 

 Bucephala clangula americana 



Attu: Ha-no sakh-oi-a 



Russian, Commander Islands: Gogol (Stejneger, referring to the closely 



related European form). 



This may be the "whistler" amtdtux, given by Jochelson, for which no dia- 

 lect was mentioned. 



Friedmann (1935) lists bones found in Kodiak middens, which 

 he assigned to this subspecies on geographic grounds, and he 

 mentions two specimens collected there by Fisher. On March 21, 

 1924, Laing (1925) observed three of these ducks at Uyak Bay of 

 Kodiak Island. 



Gabrielson noted that this duck is plentiful in the Kodiak- 

 Afognak area in fall and winter; he found it in the winter at 

 Unalaska, Umnak, Kanaga, and Atka, and at King Cove and Cold 

 Bay in spring and fall. 



I observed the goldeneyes in 1925 at Unimak Island. On April 

 29, 1925, I saw a pair flying over a lagoon at Urilia Bay, and on 

 May 1, 1925, I saw a flock of about 10. On May 4, 1925, Donald 

 Stevenson reported at least 200 on Peterson Lagoon. Identifica- 

 tion could not be positive on all of these instances, but they were 

 assumed to be americana on the basis of known distribution. 



Friedmann identified a goldeneye humerus in middens of Dutch 

 Harbor, and Laing (1925) observed nine goldeneyes at Unalaska, 



