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Range. — Breeds in Iceland, southern Greenland, southern Baffin Island, and 

 northern Labrador. Winters on the Atlantic coast of North America south 

 to the coast of Maine, more rarely to Long Island; resident in Iceland. Casual 

 on Lake Ontario, and accidental in South Carolina and Florida; also in Great 

 Britain and on the continent of Europe. 



Histrionicus histrionicus pacificus Brooks. Western Harlequin Duck. 



[155a.] 



Histrionicus histrionicus pacificus W. S. Brooks, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 LIX, No. 5, Sept., 1915, 393. (Cape Shipunski, Kamchatka.) 



Range. — Breeds in Alaska, British Columbia, and Mackenzie, south in the 

 mountains to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, and in the Sierra Nevada to 

 central California; also westward through the Aleutian, Commander and 

 Kurile islands to Siberia. Winters mainly on the coast, and from the Pribilof 

 and Aleutian islands to central California; also on the Asiatic side from the 

 Commander Islands to Japan. Casual in interior North America south to 

 Nebraska and Missouri. 



Gentjs CAMPTORHYNCHUS Bonaparte. 



Camptorhynchus " Eyton " Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 58. 

 Type, by monotypy. Anas labradoria Gmelin. 



Camptorhynchus labradorius (Gmelin). Labrador Duck. [156.] 



Anas labradoria Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 537. Based on the 

 Pied Duck Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 599. (in America boreali = 

 Labrador.) 



Range. — Extinct. Bred probably on the coast of the Ungava Peninsula. 

 Wintered on the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to New Jersey and probably 

 to Chesapeake Bay. Casual on Bay Laprairie on the St. Lawrence River, 

 above Montreal, and recorded from Elmira, New York. Last record Dec. 

 12, 1878, W. H. Gregg, cf. Amer. Nat., XIII, 1879, 28. 



Genus POLYSTICTA Eyton. 



Polysticta Eyton, Catal. Brit. Birds, 1836, 58. Type, by monotypy, 

 Anas stelleri Pallas. 



Polysticta stelleri (Pallas). Steller's Eider. [157.] 



Anas stelleri Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. vi, 1769, 35 (pi. v). (E. Kam- 

 tschatka.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Arctic coasts of Siberia and Alaska from the Taimyr 

 Peninsula and Point Barrow south to St. Lawrence Island, Yukon Delta, 

 Anadyr Bay, and Kamchatka, and perhaps to the Aleutian and Shumagin 

 islands, and Alaska Peninsula. Winters in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands 



