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Adult female.— Wmg 75.5-89 (84.2) ; tail 28.5-39 (32.4) ; exposed 

 culmen (13.3) ; tarsus 20-26 (22.7) ; middle toe without claw 19.5-27 

 (22.9 mm.). ^' 



Range. — Breeds in fresli-water marshes from Mackenzie (Fort Reso- 

 lution; Great Slave Lake, Athabasca; Little Buffalo Eiver; and 

 Salt River); Manitoba (York Factory, Hudson Bay); Ontario 

 (Fort Severn) ; Quebec (Fort George) ; Maine (Calais) ; and Nova 

 Scotia (not definitely recorded as breeding) ; south to Oregon (Aspen 

 Lake, Klamath County) ; California (Mono County) ; Alberta (Red 

 Deer and Camrose) ; Saskatchewan (Fort Qu'Appelle) ; North Dakota 

 (Devils Lake; Esmond) ; Wisconsin (Jefferson County and Racine) ; 

 Illinois (Chicago; Winnebago); Ohio (Circleville and Hamilton); 

 and Massachusetts (Salem; Boston; Plymouth); possibly to New 

 Hampshire (Hampton) ; Rhode Island (Westerly) ; Connecticut (New 

 Haven; Milford) ; District of Columbia; Pennsylvania (Erie) ; Indi- 

 ana (Brookville; Bloomington; Vincennes) ; Missouri (St. Louis; 

 Independence) ; Kansas (Lawrence) ; and Colorado (Barr). 



Winters from California (Suisun Marshes; Humboldt Bay) ; Ore- 

 gon (Scio) ; Arizona (Sacaton) ; Louisiana (Belle Isle; New Oi-leans) ; 

 Mississippi (Biloxi; Bay St. Louis); Alabama (Barachias; Greens- 

 boro) ; Georgia (Darien) ; South Carolina (Mount Pleasant ; Chester) ; 



'^ Forty-four specimens from Hudson Bay, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New 

 York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia. 

 South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Jlissouri, Texas, and California : 



