24 THE BIRDS OF MONTREAL. 



not hankered after for the table and do not meet with 

 a ready sale, as they are rather fishy. The adults 

 are seldom met with here, but an occasional young 

 bird is shot in the fall. When out twelve days duck 

 shooting on Lake St. Peter from October 21, 1891, 

 out of about one hundred ducks killed only one of 

 this species, a young bird, was shot. I purchased a 

 female specimen April 21, 1893, in the Bonsecours 

 market, which was said to have been shot at Lake 

 St. Louis. I shot a female specimen November 3, 

 1893, near Jones' Island, Lake of Two Mountains, 

 and I saw several more at the time an unusual oc- 

 currence on this lake in such numbers. 



Genus Somateria. Leach. 

 Subgenus " Somateria." 



44. American Eider. (Eider-duck.) S. dresseri. 



Sharpe. 



"Transient Visitant," rare. Eider ducks in im- 

 mature plumage have been occasionally shot here 

 in the fall of the year, and these I consider to be 

 of this species. The eiders are too fishy for the 

 table to be liked as food. 



Genus Oidemia. Fleming. 

 Subgenus " Oidemia." 



45. American Scoter. (Deaf-duck.) 0. americana. 



Sw. and Rich. 

 " Transient Visitant," common. The adult male 



