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tar iiurtJi as the American Scaup Duck, aii<i ij;oini!; farther soutli in 

 winter. 



In Southern Ontaiio it is alxjut e(|ual in abundance with the 

 preceding, with whicli it is often associated, ))ut it does not leave 

 Hamilton Bay till about the middle of May, which would lead us to 

 suppose that it does not <fo so far north to breed as some of the 

 others. 



Tn Southern Ontario it is the more abundant of the two during 

 migrations. Mr. Saundei's mentions that a few breed on the St. 

 Clair Flats, and Dr. Macallum states that some still breed in the 

 marsh near l)uiiii\illc. Tln'oughout the North- West it is spoken of 

 l)y all the observei-s as an exceedingly abundant summer resident. 

 Macoun says: "Breeding more commonly than the preceding." 



In Alaska, Mr. Nelson had heard of it having been obtained at the 

 mouth of the Yukon, and says regarding it: "This record is ex- 

 tremely doubtful, since during my visit to the Yukon mouth in the 

 spring of 1879, and my long residence only sixty miles north of there, 

 not a single example of this bird was obtained or seen, nor did any of 

 my collectors in the various parts of the territory observe or secure it." 



It i"emains in Southern Ontario till the .waters are frozen over, 

 when it moves to the south to spend the winter. 



AYTHYA COLLARIS (Doxov.). 

 50. Ring-necked Duck. (150) 



Similar to the foregoing, Imt an orange-ljrown ring around the neck ; specu- 

 lum, gray ; back, nearly uniform blackish ; l>ill, black, pale at -base and near 

 ti)). F<-male: — With head and neck brown, and no collar, but loral space and 

 iliin, wliitish, as is a ring around eye; bill, plain dusky. In size, between the 

 two foregoing. 



Hab. — North America, breeding far north, and migrating soutii to <iuate- 

 mala and the West Indies. 



Xest, on the ground, composed of grass, lined witli feathers. 



Eggs, eiglit to ten, varying from grayish to buff. 



This handsome little duck is not so common as either of the pre- 

 ceding. While here it resembles the Teal in its habit.s, preferring 

 mar.sh to open water, on account of which the gunners have given it 

 the name of Ponfl Bluebill. 



In distribution its I'ange is about the same as that of the Blue- 

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