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ing ten fresh eggs on June 7, near Unalaska and shot the female ; 

 unfortunately the male was not secured. We naturally assumed that 

 these were American Green-winged Teal and therefore made no 

 special effort to shoot males on any of the eastern islands, but I now 

 sorely regret that we did not collect at least a few males as the females 

 of the two species are nearly indistinguishable. Among the western 

 and central islands we collected quite a series of both sexes and 

 every male taken proved to be an European Teal ; not a single male 

 Green-winged Teal was collected or identified anywhere. On my 

 return to Washington I looked through the National Museum col- 

 lection for specimens from the Aleutian Islands and found only two 

 males, No. 85615, collected by Lucien M. Turner on Atka Island. 

 June 28, 1879, and No. 192391, collected by Dr. J. Hobart Egbert on 

 Kiska Island, July 14, 1904 ; both of these proved to be typical 

 European Teal. Therefore, failing to find any positive evidence to 

 prove that the Green-winged Teal breeds on the Aleutian Islands, 

 we must assume for the present, on the strength of what evidence we 

 have, that the European Teal is the common breeding species of this 

 region, where it is fairly abundant, and that the Green-winged Teal, 

 which is so abundant on the main land of Alaska, occurs on the 

 islands rarely, if at all. 



MARILA MARILA 



Scaup Duck 



I saw a flock of five of these ducks in a small pond on Atka Island 

 on June 14. They did not seem to be breeding there or at any other 

 point visited by us. 



HARELDA HYEMALIS 



Old-squaw 

 A few were seen on June 11 in Chernofski Harbor on Unalaska 

 Island and at Kiska Island on June 17, but they were not in summer 

 plumage and did not seem to be breeding. 



HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS 



Harlequin Duck 



This is undoubtedly the commonest and one of the most widely 

 distributed of the ducks of the Aleutian Islands. They were seen in 

 large or small flocks at all of the islands where they could find the 

 rocky shores that they love to frequent. They were breeding about 

 the shores of Kiska Harbor on June 17 and probably at other places 



