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2d north of Hamilton Inlet. Again he says (’07, p. 484): “From the 
day we entered the George River [Sept. 14, 1905] until we were well 
down the stream they were plentiful. ....This is apparently a breed- 
ing ground for them.” 
We obtained the skin of a typical obscwra from the Eskimos at 
Hopedale. The bird was undoubtedly killed in that vicinity. We 
have presented the skin to Mr. Brewster in whose collection it now is. 
Brewster ('02, p. 187) says that a female in the Bangs collection taken 
in the Straits of Belle Isle on April 25, 1900, must be referred to obscura. 
“Another, belonging to Mr. J. D. Sornborger, which, with her brood 
of ducklings, was captured on July 8, 1896, at Okkak, on the north- ° 
eastern coast of Labrador, is intermediate in certain respects between 
obscura and rubripes, but on the whole perhaps nearer the former.” 
Anas obscura rubripes Brewst. 
RED-LEGGED Brack Duck. 
Common summer resident. 
See remarks under obscura. There is only one specimen of this 
form from Labrador, namely, one taken at Ungava by Turner on July 
1, 1884. One from Okkak is intermediate as already noted. A 
good deal can be said in favor of the view that Red-legged Black 
Ducks are merely old Black Ducks (see Townsend, ‘Birds of Essex 
County,” pp. 127, 128). 
Mareca americana (Gmel.). 
BaLpPpaTE; AMERICAN WIDGEON. 
Rare transient visitor in southern Labrador. 
Stearns says it occurs ‘‘as far as Natashquan; said to occur inland 
at Esquimaux River” and, “‘a single female of this species was shot 
in Old Fort Bay on November 27, 1880....Said to breed.” Packard 
says: ‘Mr. John Ford assures me it is common in Hamilton Inlet 
and on the southeast shore of Labrador.” ‘‘Widgeon” is a name 
so loosely applied to various species of ducks that the last record at 
least is of very doubtful value. 
Nettion crecca (Linn.). 
EUROPEAN TEAL. 
Accidental visitor. 
