CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 75° 
naturalist. He reports seeing a skin of this species in a small 
collection of birds skins made at Augpalartok, in the District of 
Uppernavik, which was collected in that vicinity in 1892. (J. A. 
Allen in The Auk, Vol. XII, p. 244, 1890.) 
XLVI. ANAS Linnezus. 1758. 
132. Mallard. 
Anas boschas Lixn. 1758. 
Breedsin both Inspectorates of Greenland and is not rare. 
(Arct. Man.) A rather common bird ; most common in the winter 
months, a few breed at Ivigtut, Greenland. (Hagerup.) It is 
very rare in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and only occasional 
in New Brunswick. It becomes more common in Quebec, espe- 
cially in the Montreal district, and in western Ontario, as a 
migrant, it assembles in great flocks and feeds in the marshes 
along Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair, where a few pairs remain to 
breed. 
This is the most abundant duck in the Northwest Territories and 
British Columbia, breeding near ponds and lakes from Lat. 49° to 
the borders of the Barren Lands. It is not a bird of the sea-coast, 
but prefers the ponds and lakes of the interior. It was breed- 
ing in Vermillion Lake at Banff, 1891, and in Eagle Pass in the 
Gold Range, B.C., in May, 1890. It is quite common in Alaska 
and breeds as far north as Kotzebue Sound, according to Nelson. 
On the Alaskan shores it is not common, but the Aleutian Islands 
and Unalaska are the feeding grounds of great numbers in 
winter. One or two pairs breed on St. Paul] Island, Behring Sea, 
each year. A few winter at Vernon, B.C. (Bvooks.) 
BREEDING Notres.—On May oth, 1892, at Deep Lake, near In- 
dian Head, Assa., found a nest containing eight eggs about fifty 
yards from the lake, in a bunch of weeds, it was made of dry 
grass, lined with down from the bird’s breast. I have found many 
nests of this duck in various parts of the country. Sometimes 
they are quite near the water, and at other times several hundred 
yards away. The nest is ina hole in the ground, rather bulky, 
made of grass and weeds, lined with down. Some of them breed 
very early in the spring, so early in fact, that I have found eggs 
cracked with the frost. 
