CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 10G 
has been found on the coast and in the interior by Fannin, who 
saw a small flock on May Ioth, 1891, at 108-mile House on the 
Cariboo Road. 
BREEDING Nores.—At the mouth of the Yukon, Dall found 
a nest of this species ina bunch of willows on a small island, 
on June 17th. It contained two white and rather large eggs, 
and was well lined with dry grass, leaves, moss and feathers. At 
St. Michael these ducks are never seen until the ice begins to 
break up off shore. May 16th is about the earliest date of arrival 
I have recorded. The mating is quickly accomplished, and a 
nesting-site chosen on the border of some pond. The spot is 
artfully hidden in the standing grass, and the eggs, if left by the 
parent, are carefully covered with grass and moss. As the set of 
eggs is completed, the male gradually loses interest in the female, 
and deserts her to join great flocks of his kind along the sea- 
shore, usually keeping in the vicinity of a bay, an inlet, or the 
mouth of some large stream. (JVe/son.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two specimens, both taken near Ottawa, Ont., in September, 
1897. 
164. Velvet Scoter, 
Oidemia fusca (LINN.) STEPH. 1824. 
Accidental (?) in Greenland. (A. O.U. List.) Collected in 
South Greenland and now in Copenhagen Museum. (Winge.) 
165. White-winged Scoter, 
Ordemia deglandi Bonar. 1850. 
Common around Newfoundland and may breed ; a winter 
migrant around Nova Scotia and a migrant in spring and autumn 
in the Bay of Fundy. Flocks were seen in July 1888 off the gulf 
coast of Prince Edward Island, and Bishop speaks of a flock 
remaining for weeks off Grindstone Island, Magdalen Islands, in 
1887. Reported by Audubon to breed on the east coast of 
Labrador. 
Abundant from Moose Factory to Richmond Gulf, Hudson 
Bay, June 1896. (Spreadborough.) It is common on the St. Law- 
rence and frequent on the Ottawa River, and not a rare migrant 
on Lake Ontatio and Lake Erie. 
