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OIDEMIA AMERICANA, Swainson. American Black Scoter. False Bay, Lasqueti Island, 
Strait of Georgia, one adult male. 
HISTRIONICUS TORQUATUS (L.) Bonaparte. Harlequin Duck. One adult male of this 
species, in fine plumage, was shot on Lasqueti Island, at False Bay ; and a young 
male at Mittlenach Island, in the Strait of Georgia. 
MARECA AMERICANA (Gmelin) Stephens. American Widgeon. Beaver Cove, Broughton 
Strait, a young male. 
NETTION CAROLINENSIS (Gmelin) Kaup. Green-winged Teal. Blunden Harbour, Queen 
Charlotte Sound, one young male. 
ARDEA Heropras, LZ. Great Blue Heron. A young bird of this species was shot in 
Cullen Harbour, and a similar one in Blunden Harbour—both in Queen Charlotte 
Sound. 
LOBIPES HYPERBOREUS (L.) Cuvier. Northern Phalarope. Fresh Water Bay, Queen 
Charlotte Sound, one specimen. 
STREPSILAS MELANOCEPHALUS, Vigors. Black Turnstone.  Forsters Island, Queen 
Charlotte Souud, three specimens. 
HALIAETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS (L.) Savigny. Bald Eagle. Johnstone Strait, one young 
specimen. 
COLAPTES MEXICANUS, Swainson. Red-shafted Flicker, Comox, Vancouver Island, one 
specimen. 
CERYLE ALCYON (L.) Bote. Belted Kingfisher. Cullen Harbour, Queen Charlotte Sound, 
two males and one female. 
CYANURA STELLERI (Gmelin) Baird. Steller’s Jay. Comox, Vancouver Island, two speci- 
mens. 
MAMMALIA. 
Sciurus HUDSONIUS, Pallas, var. Red Squirrel. Comox, Vancouver Island ; one specimen, 
which differs only from the eastern form of the species in being a little smaller and 
not so distinctly rufous on the back. 
PHOCA VITULINA, L. Harbour, Hair, or Leopard Seal. One specimen of the North Pacific 
variety of the Harbour Seal was shot in Broughton Strait. The species may be 
readily distinguished from all the other earless seals of both coasts of North 
America by the oblique implantation of its molars. 
MuUSTELA AMERICANA, Turton. Sable. Pine Marten. Johnstone Strait, one specimen. 
CANIS Lupus, (L) Wolf. A large red wolf was shot near Cullen Harbour; and a small 
grey and black variety at Knox Bay, in Johnstone Strait. 
Sec. IV., 1886, 18. 
