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(AOU, 1957) and is a regular winter visitor in small numbers in the 

 main Hawaiian Islands (Udvardy, 1961a). 



Shoveler Spatula clypeata 



Ludwig saw two shovelers Dec. 4, 19G3, on Sand Island, Midway- 

 Atoll. During the rest of the winter shovelers were seen there at least 

 six times by POBSP personnel and yet another was seen there in mid- 

 January 1966. On Apr. 30, 1964, Wislocki collected a male and a 

 female (USNM 493584, 493585) both thin, second winter birds. These 

 birds constitute the first specimen records from Midway Atoll. 



The only other island in the Hawaiian Leewards from which 

 shovelers are known is Laysan, where several sight records and one 

 specimen have been obtained (Bailey, 1956). To these records we 

 add a POBSP sight record of three shovelers that were seen on the 

 small pond north of the lagoon Oct. 22, 1966. 



This species breeds mainly in northern North America, northern 

 Europe, and northern Asia, and is of casual occurrence in the main 

 Hawaiian Islands (AOU, 1957). 



Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula 



On Oct. 29, 1963, Wirtz caught an emaciated female tufted duck by 

 hand at Green Island, Kure Atoll (USNM 493448). During the faU 

 and winter of 1963, Clapp and Ludwig collected four of at least seven 

 seen on the overrun ponds of Sand Island, Midway Atoll: November 

 13, 9, USNM 493828; December 2, 9, USNM 493450; and December 

 4, cf, ?USNM 493449, 498077. These birds were either sick and 

 emaciated or found dead. 



The following fall Wirtz collected two more tufted ducks in the 

 same area. One was shot Oct. 30, 1964 (?USNM 494360) and the other 

 was found dead Nov. 1, 1964 (?USNM 498125). 



Kepler saw another in the overrun ponds Oct. 25, 1965, and on 

 Jan. 7, 1967, Huber found a dried carcass of yet another tufted duck 

 (?USNM 497500) near the reservoir between the runways. 



Those specimens that were preserved as skins (493448-493450, 

 493828, 494360) are all juveniles, many of which exhibit a considerably 

 retarded molt. 



The only other records from the Hawaiian Leewards are those of 

 Fisher (1960, 1965). He shot an emaciated male on Dec. 5, 1959, at 

 Sand Island, Midway Atoll, and saw five others there in December 

 1963, some of which are probably the same birds as those reported 

 above. 



The tufted duck breeds from Iceland and the Scandinavian Penin- 

 sula across northern Asia south to central Europe and central Asia. 



