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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 71 
ORDER ANSERES. LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS. 
Famity XIV. ANATIDA®. Ducks, GEESE AND Swans. 
XLII], MERGAWNSER Brisson. 1760. 
129. American Merganser. Goosander. 
Merganser americanus (CAss.) STEJN. 1885. 
This species breeds in New Brunswick (Chamberlain), in New- 
foundland (Aeeks), in Labrador (Low), Prince Edward Island 
and Sable Island (J/acoun), and is a common summer resident in 
Quebec and Ontario. 
Breeds in the northern part of Manitoba and northwesterly 
to the Barren Grounds. (Macfarlane.) Nelson and Turner report 
it as only a visitor in Alaska, but both Brooks and Fannin report 
it breeding in British Columbia and wintering abundantly on 
Okanagan Lake. Found breeding at Canmore and Banff, Rocky 
Mountains, May, 1891, and at Jasper Lake, Alberta, in 1898. 
BREEDING Notes.—Mr. A. P. Low found it breeding on the 
shores of small lakes in Labrador ; eggs were taken with the bird 
from under small spruces on the upper part of the Hamilton 
River, in the summer of 1806. 
Fairly common in Alberta, downy young killed June 24th, 1896, 
at the forks of Blindman River and the Red Deer. (Dippre.) 
This is a summer resident at Norway Lake, Renfrew Co., Ont.; 
although I never obtained the nest. I have seen the bird, how- 
ever, fly into a cavity in a pine tree about forty feet from the 
ground. I have learned that a pair bred every year in the bole 
of a decayed pine tree on an island in Bolis Lake, Frontenac Co., 
Ont. I have reason to believé that this species prefers in Ontario 
inland lakes bordered by woods and not large expanses of open 
water. (Kev. C.J, Young.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One taken by Mr. S. Herring in Toronto marsh and another in 
the harbour of Victoria, B.C., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
Mr, A P. Low took a nest of this species from under low- 
spreading spruce trees on the Upper Hamilton River, Labrador, 
in June, 1894. The eggs are in the Museum. 
