I1lO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
gulf, June, 1896. (Spreadborough.) Casual on the Ottawa river. 
Mr. G. R. White, on November 7th, 1889, shot a young male of this 
species on the Ottawa river, after a strong easterly gale, near the 
city. Mr. J. H. Fleming, of Toronto, doubts the occurrence of this 
bird at Toronto. All specimens seen by him were king eiders. 
BREEDING NoTES.—Mr. Fraser found the eider duck breeding on 
the small islands along the coast of Labrador. The nest was built 
in a hollow among soft, short grass, or at the foot of a rock where 
it was sheltered from the wind. It was composed of grass, and lined 
with slate-coloured down from the breast of the bird. (McIlwrazth.) 
Breeding on rocky islands in Richmond gulf, Hudson bay. Nest 
composed of weeds and grass, lined with down from the bird’s breast. 
(Spreadborough.) Breeds abundantly along the Labrador coast. 
Sets of eggs in my collection were taken July 9th, 1896, in Ungava 
bay. (Raine.) Breeds in great numbers on sandy islands off the 
mouth of George river, James bay. (J. M. Macoun.) 
161. Pacific Eider. 
Somaterta v-nigra. GRAY. 1855. 
Murray recorded this species from Severn House, Hudson bay. 
(Preble.) A male specimen of this species was shot by the writer at 
Fort Resolution on Great Slave lake in 1858, and a female was 
obtained by Mr. Alexander Mackenzie in 1861 at the samie place. 
(Ross.) This interesting bird breeds in immense numbers on the 
shores of Franklin bay; it is also very abundant on the coast and 
islands of Liverpool bay. (Macfarlane.) This species is quite com- 
mon at Point Barrow during the migrations, but does not breed 
there, going farther to the eastward. (Murdoch.) Along the coast 
of the North Pacific, both shores of the Aleutian islands, and all the 
islands of Bering sea and the coast of the adjoining Arctic ocean 
to the northern limit of the mainland, is the broad area over which 
the breeding range of this bird extends. (Nelson.) This bird is to 
be found in all parts of Alaska that have come under my observa- 
tion. (Turner.) Six adult females and one adult male were taken 
by Anderson at Seldovia, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, and one adult 
female opposite Homer. One set of four and one of five eggs were 
taken on Bird island, Seldovia. _(Chapman.) 
BREEDING Notes.—At St. Michael this species breeds in con- 
siderable numbers, and there prefers the open tundra for a nesting 
