l8o DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



migrant. The White-winged Scoter, until the last few years, was 

 known to breed only in British America anc\ Labrador, but recently 

 a few nests have been found in restricted localities in North 

 Dakota. In 1899 the writer found one White- winged Scoter's 

 nest with ten eggs, June 23, and one containing eleven eggs and 

 three eggs of the Baldpate, on June 25; both nests on the ground 

 on small rocky islands in the Devil's Lake region. The latter 

 nest was placed under a small wild gooseberry bush, and I caught 

 the female duck on the nest with my hands. 



County records: Blackhawk — "one .specimen taken some years 

 ago and a few others ob.served" (Peck). Des Moines — "Nov. 15, 

 1890, Burlington, by Paul Bartsch" (C. C. Nutting, Proc. Iowa 

 Acad.Sci., 1894,44). Clay — Palo Alto — "Nov. 24, 1891, received 

 a male which, with one other, was obtained from a flock of five at 

 Lost Island Lake, Iowa" (Frank W. Sheldon, O. & O., March, 

 1892, xvii, 3, 46). Lee — "one specimen taken Oct. 26, 1894 — only 

 record — Keokuk district" (Praeger); "rare visitor; specimen in 

 Mr. Praeger's collection "(Currier). Linn — "fall migrant" 

 (Bailey); "tolerably common winter visitant" (Berry). Palo Alto 

 — "mounted and photographed a female shot by M. Shaw at Pick- 

 erel Lake, October, 1902" (A. D. Whedon). Woodbury — "rare 

 transient" (Rich); a female specimen sent to the University 

 museum was killed Nov. 16, 1903, at Crystal Lake, Neb., an old 

 channel of the Missouri River, two and one-half miles southwest 

 of Sioux City, Iowa, by R. E. Rathbone. 



Subgenus Pelionetta Kaup. 



54. (166). Oideviia per spicil lata (Linn.). Surf Scoter. 



The Surf Scoter is only a casual visitor in Iowa. W. W. Cooke 

 states that it "occurs in winter on all the larger streams in Illi- 

 nois, as well as on Lake Michigan. Has been taken at St. Louis, 

 Mo., and at LaPorte City, Iowa." 



County records: Des Moines — two specimens in University 

 museum, collected at Burlington by Paul Bartsch; No. 16077, 

 male juv., March 28, 1893; No. 16079, Nov. 22, 1895. Lee — 

 "one specimen Oct. 20, 1895, and one Oct. 22, 1896, are ni}- only 

 records — Keokuk district" (Praeger). Linn — "rare winter vis- 

 itant" (Berry). Pottawattamie — "Iowa side of Cut-off Lake (No- 

 man's-Land); straggler" (Trostler). 



