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ter on the 30th of December, 1887, and the other on January 16, 

 1888, within a hundred yards of the sea wall of the Battery, in 

 Charleston. Mr. Charles B. Cory saw two of these ducks at Cape 

 Canaveral, Florida, in December, 1894. In January and Feb- 

 ruary, 1895, I saw numerous flocks of these ducks near Long 

 Island and, on February 26 secured an adult female, which I 

 recorded in the Auk.^ The Old-squaw ascends the Savannah 

 Riveras far as Augusta, Georgia, where Dr. Eugene Edmund 

 Murphey obtained a pair on February 10, 1904, one of which 

 (the male) is now in my collection. During the winter of 1905, 

 I saw several adult males near Capers' Island in January and 

 February. 



The Old-squaw is frequently to be seen in company with the 

 Surf Duck (Oidemia perspicillata) , and during the month of Feb- 

 ruary, 1905, I observed a female in a flock of these ducks that 

 was feeding upon a species of mussel which adhered to dead 

 live oak trees, in the surf on Capers' Island. I saw this duck 

 until March 3, and its powers of diving and eluding the surf, 

 convinced me that it was as much at home among the breakers 

 as the Surf Duck. When shot at while on the wing, this species 

 sometimes dives in order to elude the shot. 



The Old-squaw has been found breeding as far north as lati- 

 tude 82°. 



55. Oidemia americana Sw. & Rich. Scoter. 



I have never seen this species alive, and am indebted to my 

 friend Dr. Eugene Edmund Murphey, of Augusta, Georgia, for 

 the privilege of recording it. An adult male in very worn plum- 

 age was taken by him in Bull's Bay, on May 7, 1903. As far as 

 I am informed, this is the first instance of the capture of this 

 duck in the State; indeed there are only two records for the At- 

 lantic coast south of New Jersey, the most southern being Flor- 

 ida. 



The Scoter breeds in northern Ungava and the region about 

 Hudson Bay. 



56. Oidemia perspicillata (Linn.). Surf Scoter; Surf Duck. 

 Fifteen years ago, the Surf Duck was very abundant in winter 



within a few hundred yards of the village of Mount Pleasant, 



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