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persons in the continual habit of shooting fowl on the 

 great rice-flats of Algonac on Lake St. Clair, on the 

 Chatham marshes at the mouth of the Thames river on 

 the same lake, and on the pine-swamps of the Aux 

 Canards., near Amherstberg, an affluent of the Detroit 

 river all of which localities are literally alive with 

 wild-fowl at the proper season. 



I have since heard from an officer in H. M. Royal 

 Canadian Rifles of two of those birds being killed near 

 Prescott, on the St. Lawrence ; but they were utterly 

 unknown to the inhabitants there ; and he wrote to me 

 to make inquiries as to their species and name. During 

 the present summer I learned, also, from my friend Mr. 

 Dotty, M. C. for Wisconsin, that during the whole winter 

 they are exceedingly abundant, wherever open water is 

 to be found, on Lake "Winnebago and the rivers of that 

 region, coming late in the autumn and disappearing in 

 the spring. 



Every thing, therefore, confirms me in my first idea, 

 that this is an as yet nondescript duck, nondescript cer- 

 tainly as a fowl of the United States, whose summer 

 haunts are far up in the arctic seas, and the winter limits 

 *of whose migrations do not extend below 44 30' N. 

 latitude. In this view, I have taken the liberty of sug- 

 gesting, should it prove to be hitherto undescribed and 

 unnamed, the propriety of -designating it the " Lake 

 Huron Scoter," from its locality, and its resemblance to 

 that class of ducks, and, in Latin, " Futigufa 



