38 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



GENUS HISTRIONlCUS LESS. 



59-155-(730). Histrionicns histrionicns (Linn.). HARLEQUIN DUCK. 



Very rare; admitted in Gibbs' Birds of Michigan. A. H. Boies thinks this should 

 be included. Prof. Ludwig Kumlein writes me that he has taken two specimens in 

 Jefferson Co., Wisconsin. 



GENUS SOMATERIA LEACH. 



(>0-160-(734). Somateria dresser i Sharpe. AMERICAN EIDER. 



"Occasionally seen on Lake Superior" (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); the late W. H. 

 Collins reported taking a young male in Detroit on Detroit river, Dec. 1882. If this 

 bird occur in Michigan it must be as an accidental straggler. 



ttl-162-(736). Somateria spectabilis (Linn.). KING EIDER. 



"Straggler taken at Milwaukee and Grand Haven, Michigan" (Prof. Ludwig 

 Kumlein). Dr. A. K. Fisher thinks this very doubtful. 



GENUS OIDEMIA FLEM. 



t>2 103 (737). Oidemia americana Sw. and Rich. AMERICAN SCOTER; AMERICAN 



BLACK SCOTER. 



"Rare accidental visitor'' (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); taken at Au Sable, Oct., 

 1884 (N. A. Eddy in O. and O., Vol. IX, p. 41); "not uncommon in winter on Lake 

 Michigan " (H. Nehrling and L. Kumlein). 



63-165-(788). Oidemia deg'landi Bonap. WHITE-WINGED SCOTER; VELVET SCOTER. 

 Rather rare; migrant; two in our museum taken at Pine Lake near here in 1885; 

 "Lake Michigan" (Butler's Birds of lad.); "this bird is becoming more numerous, now 

 frequently taken during migration at Park and Pine Lakes near Lansing" (C. J. Davis); 

 "occurs regularly on Lake Michigan" (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); "cannot be called 

 common in Upper Peninsula " (C. S. Osborn). 



<>4 166-(739). Oidemia perspicillata (Linn.} SURF DUCK; SURF SCOTER; SEA COOT. 

 Very rare; winter visitor; "Au Sable and Saginaw Bay" (N. A. Eddy in O. and O., 

 Vol. IX, 1884, pp. 4 and 41); "regular migrant on inland lakes of Wisconsin" (Prof. 

 Ludwig Kumlein); "not uncommon on Lake Michigan" (H. Nehrling); "taken near 

 Iron Mountain Oct. 20, 1890 " (E. E. Brewster). 



GENUS ERISMATURA BONAP. 



65-1 6 7- (7 41). Erismatura rnbida (Wils.). RUDDY DUCK; BLACK JACK. 



Exceedingly abundant; "throughout the State" (A. H. Boies); migrant^ April, Oct. 

 and Nov.; very common at Pine Lake; taken in Oakland county by J. B. Purdy: 

 reported from Kent Co.; "exceedingly abundant some falls in Kalamazoo Co." (Dr. M . 

 Gibbs); " common migrant on Lake Erie" (Jerome Trombley); Mr. Jerome Trombley 

 reports large numbers on Raisin River in spring of 1888; "at Mackinac Island" (S. E. 

 White); given by Dr. J. B. Steere as a summer resident; flocks; very fearless and 

 stupid; "breeds in Northern Peninsula" ( Prof. Ludwig Kumlein); the late W. H. Col- 

 lins reported taking eggs; "not very good eating " (A. H. Whitehead). 



GENUS CHEN BOIE. 



<S6-1(>9"(696). Chen hyperborea (Pall). LESSER SNOW GOOSE. 



Rare; migrant; reported from Michigan in the catalogue of the museum of the 



