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nowhere abundant. In the vicinity of Saint Michael’s it arrives in spring about the middle of 
May with the majority of other migrating water fowl and nests on the surrounding flats, leaving 
for the South towards the end of September. It has not been recorded from any of the Bering Sea 
islands, nor do I know of its having been taken on the northeastern shore of Siberia. It is found, 
however, on the Arctic shore of Alaska, north to Kotzebue Sound, if not beyond, and a few indi. 
viduals were observed by us towards the middle of September, 1881, at the head of Escholtz 
Bay. 
QUERQUEDULA DISCORS (Linn.) Steph. 
(126.) BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 
During the time of my residence on Norton Sound not a single individual of this bird was 
taken among the many hundreds of ducks secured by the various hunters about the station. It 
occurs, however, very rarely at this place, and is recorded by Dall as being found sparingly at the 
Yukon mouth. Mr. Bannister notes it as not uncommon at Saint Michael’s in early spring; but 
there must be some error in this record from the great scarcity of the bird at the same locality 
during the period of my residence there. Captain Smith saw the bird and obtained its eggs from 
near Cape Romanzoff; and this completes our record of this teal within the region treated in the 
present paper. It is mentioned by Mr. Dall as perhaps occurring at Ounalaska in winter, but this 
was merely surmised, as no specimens were obtained and the habits of this species are such that 
there is little probability of its occurring there. 
NETTION CAROLINENSIS (Gmel.) Baird. 
(127.) GREEN-WINGED TEAL. 
This handsome bird is the smallest Duck found in the north, and occurs rather frequently 
along the Alaskan shore of Bering Sea, and ranges north nearly if not quite to Point Barrow, 
along the shore of the Arctic. It has been found as a summer resident of the Aleutian Islands as 
far west as Kyska, and is occasionally at Attou, near the western extreme of the chain. Mr. Dall 
tells us that it was upon this species they relied mainly for supplying their table during their 
surveying in the western portion of the Aleutian chain, and he found the young ones abundant at 
Amehitka in July. Further to the north, however, it is less numerous, and although generally 
distributed, and rather common, yet during a day’s shooting one would scarcely see more than a 
half dozen or so of this species at most localities. They arrive early in the spring—about the 
middle of May or thereabouts—before the ice and snow have more than partly disappeared. It is 
not known from the Siberian shore, nor from the islands of Bering Sea, except the Aleutian chain, 
although it undoubtedly breeds upon Saint Lawrence Island. A number of these birds were 
bought from the natives of Hotham Inlet in Kotzebue Sound, September 6, 1851, where they were 
apparently numerous at the time. 
FULIX MARILA (Linn.) Baird. 
(128.) Scaup Duck. 
This is one of the most abundant Dueks in the north, being found breeding almost every- 
where on the marshy flats and lake-dotted tundra of the mainland, and extending its range to 
such islands as afford it suitable feeding grounds. Both this and the smaller species, afinis, are 
recorded by Dall as occurring at the Yukon mouth; but according to the observations I was 
enabled to make at that locality and in the adjoining region, among hundreds of Scaup Ducks 
seen not a single individual could be referred to anything but the common large-billed species, 
and I do not think afinis reaches the sea-shore of Northern Alaska. The large Seaup, however, 
as before noted, is extremely numerous and hatches its young on the borders of almost every 
lakelet and pool along the entire coast. It oceurs on Saint Lawrence Island and north about 
the shores of Kotzebue Sound, and probably beyond to the extreme north coast of the territory. 
It was not noted by us upon the northeastern shore of Siberia, but undoubtedly oceurs there 
during the summer. 
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