100 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
at she did not move. I several times passed within a foot of the 
nest without looking toward it, then walking back would look at 
the bird, when she rose immediately. (/. W. Macoun.) Before 
or about the time that the young are hatched and brought to the 
ponds by their mothers, the males have forsaken their usual 
haunts on these and have left for the open sea. This occurs 
early in August. The nests are placed almost anywhere on the 
flat ground near the ponds, usually on a little rise. On June 12th 
I found a nest and nine fresh eggs about forty feet from the village 
pond on St. Paul. Island. It was placed on a little hillock on the 
killing-ground. When flushed, about ten feet off, the bird flew 
directly to its mate. Leaving the eggs, I returned soon to find 
that she had been back, had covered them completely with 
down and dry short grass, and returned to the pond. June 17th, 
before 8 a.m., I found a nest—merely a few pieces of short 
grass-stems—containing one egg. Each morning thereafter at 
the same time I found another egg and more nest-material, 
including, from the second morning, an addition of black down, 
which was always placed on and around the eggs, not beneath, 
and which was evidently from the bird’s own breast. (William 
Palmer.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Three specimens. One taken at Toronto by Mr. S. Herring, 
another in Hudson Bay by Dr. R. Bell, and the third at St. John, 
New Brunswick, by Mr. Chamberlain. 
Our eggs of this species were taken at Whale River, Ungava 
Bay, Labrador, June 16th, 1896, by Mr. G. Boucher. 
LVIII. HISTRIONICUS Lesson. 1828. 
155. Harlequin Duck. 
Fitstrionicus histrionicus (LINN.) BoucarpD. 1876. 
Observed on the east coast of Greenland; most common 
between Lat. 62° to 65° N. ; rarertothe northward. (Arct. Man.) 
Breeds at Godhavn, Vestbjord and other places in Greenland. 
(Winge.) A common summer migrant in Newfoundland, breed- 
ing on the borders of lakes andrivers. (eeks.) A rare winter 
migrant around Nova Scotia. (Dowas.) Axrare spring and autumn 
visitant in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) 
