40 2' rails. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



visitant on the larger rivers. At Keokuk, which is situated on 

 the Mississippi River at the foot of the rapids, Mr. E. S. Currier 

 had the opportunity to observe it every winter for eleven years 

 and found it in flocks of from 30 to 100, sometimes much more 

 numerous, as on January 17, 1903, and March 5, 1895, when a 

 thousand were present. His dates of those first seen vary from 

 November 9, 1895, to December 4, 1892, and those for last seen 

 from January 17, 1903, to April 7, 1899. A female in the Hurter 

 collection was taken near St. Louis, January 1, 1875. 



152. Clangula islandica (Gmel.). Barrow's Golden-eye. 



Glaucionefta islandica. Anas islandica. Rocky Mountain Garrot. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern North America; breeding from moun- 

 tains of western United States and from Bay of Fundy to Green- 

 land and Alaska. It winters around the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 in the northern United States, the Rocky Mountains and on the 

 Pacific coast south to central California. 



Mr. E. S. Currier gives the species as rare, but occurring amongst 

 the immense number of Golden-eyes which winter on the Des 

 Moines rapids. Mr. W. E. Praeger obtained a female shot March 

 27, 1888, on Lima Lake, 111., a few miles east of the state line. 

 In a letter sent to Mr. R. Ridgway and published in Forest and 

 Stream, vol. 36, p. 435, Mr. Frank W. Sparks of St. Louis writes 

 under date of February 10, 1891: ''This fall, while shooting at 

 the same place (New Albany, southeast Missouri) I killed a 

 specimen of Barrow's Golden-eye. Unfortunately this duck, or 

 more properly drake, was half picked by one of the boys in camp 

 when I discovered it. He is rare so far east, is he not?" To this 

 Mr. R. Ridgway repUed: "Regarding your capture of Barrow's 

 Golden-eye in Missouri, this is not so remarkable, as specimens 

 have previously been taken in the vicinity of St. Louis, in Kansas 

 and southern Illinois. These localities represent, however, 

 about the southern limit of the winter range of the species, 

 which is a northern and not a western bird, as you seem to regard 

 it." 



153. Charitonetta albeola (Linn.). Buffle-head. 



Atias albeola. Fuligula albeola. Clangula albeola. Bucephala albeola. 

 Butterball. Dipper. 



Geog. Dist. — North America; breeds from Maine, Ontario, 

 Wisconsin, Wyoming and British Columbia northward in all the 

 forest country to the upper Yukon. In winter along all coasts 



