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locally the most abundant duck at this season in this region. 

 It is also a common winter resident of the Bahamas, of Cu- 

 ba, sometimes Jamaica, while on the mainland it is a rare 

 visitant to California and Lower California, but is common 

 in Mexico and ranges all the way to central Guatemala. Its 

 northward range extends to the Carolinas and on to Mary- 

 land and New Jersey, however being rare in the latter two 

 States; thence it ranges westward to southern Illinois, 

 northern Texas, New Mexico, and north on the Pacific coast 

 to southern British Columbia. 



American Golden- eye. 



The American golden-eye is accounted one of the hard- 

 iest of ducks, its northern distribution in winter being gov- 

 erned only by the presence of open water, a necessity to 

 nearly all species of the duck family. Its scientific name is 

 "Clangula clangula americana." It is somewhat common 

 on Lakes Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, and during mild op- 

 en winters it has been known to remain north to Prince Ed- 

 ward Island. All winter it is quite common along the New 

 England coast, continuing to be common all the way down 

 the coast to North Carolina, but gets less common south of 

 that State. In the interior it remains during the winter 

 north as far as Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah, while on the Pa- 

 cific coast it is found at this time north as far as the Aleu- 

 tian Islands. 



Barrow Golden-eye: 



The great majority of the breeding birds of eastern 

 Canada stay through the winter around the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, however, a few straggle southward, being record- 

 ed in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New r York, 

 and Virginia. Scientifically it is known as " Clangula is- 

 landica." 



