64 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



tioii tliat is usually Ijestuwed upon visitors of this description. John 

 Dynes was the first to give them a salute, and he captured two oi 

 their number, one of which came into my possession. The other 

 three remained for a day or two, Ijut were much disturbed, and 

 finally got away. On the 13th of March, 1884, a similar visit was 

 made by a like numbei-, about the time the ice was breaking up. Mr. 

 Smith, who was in charge of the Ocean House at the time, saw them 

 flying heavily up the lake. They seemed nmch exhausted, and on 

 alighting on the ice near the edge of the water, at once squatted flat, 

 with their heads, resting ))etween their sliouldcis. When two oi- 

 three rifle bullets were landed uncomfoi'tal)ly neai- them, they got up 

 reluctantly, and went oft' eastward down the lake, hugging the shore 

 for shelter from the wind, which was blowing fresh at the time. 



Dr. Macallum writes that "on the 28th of September, 18S9, a 

 very fine female White Pelican was shot at the mouth of the Grand 

 River, near Dunnville, which came into my hands. There had not 

 been one shot here for twenty-two years. Tt was in a very emaciated 

 condition, l)ut in good plumage, and now adorns one of my cases." 



>So the stragglers are picked up, but the bulk of the species is 

 found to the north and w(-st of Ontario. Macouii found them breed- 

 ing in Old Wives, Ciull and Long Lakes in the North- West. It is als(^ 

 said that several thousands of these birds ai'e jjermanent residents on 

 Great Salt Lake, Utah, where they Ijreed on the islands twenty mile.s 

 out in the lake. 



Order ANSERES. Lamellirostral Swimmers. 



F.\MiLV ANATID^. Dicks, (iicKSK a.nd Swans. 



Subfamily .MKRdllN^l Mkk(;ansi:ks. 



Gexl-s merganser Bkissox. 



MERGANSER AMERTCANUS (Cass.). 



■U. American Merganser. (I-".)) 



Nostrils, nciu-ly iiiciliiin ; frontal feathers reaching heyoml those on siiles of 

 l>ill ; male with tlie lieail .scarcely cie.sted, glossy green; l)ack and wings, l)Iack 

 and wliite, latter ciossed by one black bar; under parts, salmon-colored; lengtii, 

 about 24; wing, 11, female smaller, occipital crest bettei- developed, but .still 

 flimsy ; head and neck, reddish-brown ; black paits of the male, ashy gray ; less 

 white on the wing ; under parts less tinted with salmon. 



