328 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Dafila acuta (Linn.). 
PINTAIL. 
Very rare transient visitor. 
The only records are the following. Turner records a female 
young of the year taken at the mouth of the Koksoak River and an 
adult at Davis Inlet. Presumably both are fall records. Stearns 
records the capture of one specimen of a pair seen at Old Fort Island, 
and adds that another was taken near the same place a short time 
before. 
We obtained the skin of a young male prepared by the Eskimos 
at Hopedale and saw the skin of another. Both birds were believed 
to have been taken the previous autumn. 
[Aix sponsa (Linn.). Woop Ducx.— Stearns (’83) states that this 
duck is “not rare in the interior”’ of Labrador, but it seems doubtful if this 
report is based on good evidence.] 
Aythya americana (Eyt.). 
REDHEAD. 
Very rare transient visitor. 
This duck is probably a rare fall migrant to the coast of Labrador. 
None have been reported by those who have penetrated to the interior 
of the peninsula. The only definite record is that of Stearns who 
saw one on September 23, 1880, at Baie des Roches on the southern 
coast. Cooke (’06, p. 42) says: “An individual was taken in the fall 
in southeastern Labrador.’ He perhaps refers to this record. 
Aythya marila (Linn.). 
GREATER Scaup Duck. 
Rare summer resident in northwestern Labrador. 
According to Macoun (’00), a few were observed by Spreadborough 
in James Bay and in the interior of Labrador in 1896, and a set of 
six eggs was taken June 16, 1896, near Whale River on James Bay. 
The only record for the east coast is that of a specimen shot near 
Nain in October, 1899 (Bigelow, ’02). Dr. R. Bell gives the Lesser 
Scaup Duck as breeding in large numbers on Nottingham Isle in 
Hudson Strait and at Churchill and York Factory in Hudson Bay, 
but as Macoun says, it is more probable that the birds were A. maria. 
