96 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Another was in an elm stub, and the hole by which the bird enter- 
ed was about five feet from the ground. The nest itself was on 
a level with the ground, and made of rotten wood without any 
down. I think they do not use down until after they begin to sit, 
and that it is added to keep the eggs warm when away feeding. I 
also found a nest in a hollow cottonwood log on the ground. 
None of the nests were more than seventy-five yards from the 
water, and some only a few feet from it. (Spreadborough.) 
Breeds throughout Manitoba, northern Assiniboia and Alberta, 
laying its eggs in holes in trees. (tazne.) 
A small flock of these birds was observed about the Bay of 
Quinté, Lake Ontario, in August, 1897, and two or three were 
shot a little later; it is very probable a pair or two nested not 
far ott. (Rev. C.J. Young.) 
This bird prefers to nest in a tree some fifteen or twenty-five feet 
fromthe ground. The nest is composed of grass, leaves and moss, 
lined with feathers. The eggs, eight or more in number, are of 
an ashy-green colour. It lays about the middle of May, or later. 
In 1894 a pair of these birds built near a large pond within a 
short distance of Templeton, Que., a few miles from Ottawa, 
and raised a small brood of five. Onthe 23rd of June these 
youngsters were quite able to dive and follow the old bird twenty 
yards under water. (G. R. White.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One specimen ; taken at Toronto in 1865. 
Two sets of eggs,taken at Indian Head, Assa., in June, 1892. 
152. Barrow’s Golden-eye. 
Clangula tslandica (GMEL.) Bonap. 1842. 
Breeds in South Greenland only, apparently not further north 
than Godthaab. (Arct. Man.) Stragglers have been taken all 
along the Atlantic coast from Hudson Strait south to the Bay of 
Fundy. They are more abundant to the north and become rare 
in the Gulf, though they are taken in the St. Lawrence and on 
Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. 
Dr. Elliott Coues records in his ‘ Birds of Montana and Dakota,’ 
the occurrence of a brood of this species on Chief Mountain Lake, 
Waterton Lake, Rocky Mountains, on the United States side of 
the International Boundary. In 1895 the writer sawa few speci 
