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iiowbcre iibumlant. la the vicinity of Saint Jliuliael's it arrives in spring about tlie niiddlu oi' 

 May with tlic majority of other mijrrating water fowl and nests on the surrounding flats, leavinj;- 

 for the South towards the end of September. It has not been recorded from any of the Bering Sea 

 islands, nor do I know of its having' been taken on the northeastern shore of Siberia. It is found, 

 however, on the Arctic shore of Alaska, north to Kotzebue Sound, if not beyond, and a few indi. 

 viduals were observed by us towards the middle of September, 1881, at the head of Eseholtz 

 Bay. 



QUERQUEDULA DISCORS (Linn. Steph. 



(126.) Blue-winged Teal. 



During the time of my residence on Noi'ton Sound not a single individual of this bird was 

 taken among the many hundreds of ducks secured by the various hunters about the station. It 

 occurs, however, very rarely at this place, and is recorded by Dall as being found sparingly at the 

 Yukon mouth. Mr. Bannister notes it as not uncommon at Saint Michael's in early spring; but 

 there must be some error in this record from the great scarcity of the bird at the same locality 

 during the period of my residence there. Captain Smith saw the bird and obtained its eggs from 

 near Cape Romanzoff; and this completes our record of this teal within the i-egiou treated in the 

 present paper. It is mentioned by Mr. Dall as perhai)s occurring at Ounalaska in winter, but this 

 was merely surmised, as no specimens were obtained and the habits of this species are such tiiat 

 there is little probability of its occurring there. 



NETTION CAROLINENSIS (Gmel. i Baird. 



(127.) Green-winged Teal. 



This handsome bird is the smallest Duck found in the north, and occurs rather frequently 

 along the Alaskan shore of Bering Sea, and ranges north nearly if not ()uite to Point Barrow, 

 along the shore of the Arctic. It has been found as a summer resident of the Aleutian Islands as 

 far west as Kyska, anil is occasionally at Attou, near the western extreme of the chain. ^Ir. Dall 

 tells us that it was upon this species they relied mainly for supplying their table during their 

 surveying in the western portion of the Aleutian chain, and he found the young ones abundant at 

 Amchitka in July. Further to the north, however, it is less numerous, and although generally 

 distributed, and rather common, yet during a day's shooting one would scarcely see more than a 

 half dozen or so of this species at most localities. Tliey arrive early in the spring — about the 

 middle of May or thereabouts — before the ice and snow have more than partly disappeared. It is 

 not known from the Siberian shore, nor from the islands of Bering Sea, except the Aleutian chain, 

 although it undoubtedly breeds upon Saint Lawrence Island. A number of these birds were 

 bought from the natives of Hotham Inlet in Kotzebue Sound, September 0, 1881, wliere they were 

 apiiarently numerous at the time. 



FULIX MARILA (Linn. ) Baird. 



(128.) Scaup Duck. 



This is one of the most abundant Ducks in the north, being found breeding almost every- 

 where on the marshy flats and lake-dotted tundra of the mainland, and extending its range to 

 such islands as attbrd it suitable feeding grounds. Both this and the smaller species, affinis, are 

 recorded by Dall as occurring at the Yukon mouth; but according to the observations I was 

 enabled to make at that locality and in the adjoining region, among hundreds of Scaui) Diu'ks 

 seen not a single individual could be referred to anything but the common large-billed species, 

 and I do not think (iffiiiix readies the sea-siiore of Northern Alaska. Tlie large Scau|i, however, 

 as before noted, is extremely numerous and hatches its young on the borders of almost every 

 lakelet and pool along the entire coast. It occurs on Saint Lawrence Island and north about 

 the shores of Kotzebue Sound, and probably beyond to the extreme north coast of the territory. 

 It was not noted by us upon the northeastern shore of Siberia, but undoubtedly occurs there 

 during the summer. 



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