A.VES. 43 



ANSERES. 



AXATIDAE. 



Me. — UncommOD winter resident about roekv islands. Oct. 

 19-Mar. (April). 



X. H. — -Rare winter visitor coastwise. Nov. 



Mass. — Rare winter visitor coastwise; casual inland. Nov. 1- 

 Jan. 



R. I. — Rare winter visitor coastwise. Nov. 28-Jan. 29. 



81. Camptorhyxchus labradorius (Gmelin) Bonaparte. 



Labrador duck; Pied duck; Sand-shoal duck. 



Anas labradoria Gmel., Syst. nat., 17SS, vol. 1. pt. 2, p. 537. 

 "i\ America boreali." 



Fuligula labradora Lath. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1843, 

 vol. G, p. 329, pi. 400. 



Formerly on seacoast; nests on "tops of low fir trees." Last 

 specimen taken in 187"). 



Me. — Formerly a winter visitor coastwise. 



Mass. — Formerly a winter visitor coastwise; last taken in the 

 State at Swampscott, early September, 1862. 

 Conn. — Formerly a winter resident (Stratford). 



82. So.materia mollissima borealis (C. L. Brehm) A. E. 

 Brehm. 



Northern eider; Greenland eider. 



Platypus borealis C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. aaturg. europ. vogel, 

 1824, vol. 2, p. 813. Coasts and islands of Baffin Bay and 

 Davis Strait (fide H. C. Oberholser). 



Somateria mollissima (Linne). Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Water birds No. Amer., 1884, vol. 2, ]>. 72, figs, on p. 77. 



Salt water chiefly; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Rare winter visitor coastwise. Oct. 19-April 6. 

 Mass. — Rare winter visitor coastwise. Late Oct. -April 3. 

 R. I. — Unsatisfactorily recorded from Newport. 



