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through heavy storms, as their habitat is the coasts 

 of the North Atlantic ocean. 



Family Icteridce. 

 Genus Xanthocephalus. Swainson. 



253. Yellow-headed Blackbird. X. Xanthocephalus. 



(Bonap.) 



' Accidental Visitant," rare. I saw a young 

 male mounted specimen of this hird in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Crevier, taxidermist, of this city, said 

 to have been shot by him, below Hochelaga, in 

 July, 1894, found in company with a lot of Red- 

 winged Blackbirds at the time, but the only one of 

 its kind observed. 



Family Anatidce. 



G-enus Somaterice. Leach. 



Subgenus Eriomtta. Coues. 



254. King Eider. S. spectabilis. (Linn.) 

 "Accidental Visitant," rare. A pair of these 



ducks, young male and female, were shot, Octo- 

 ger 9, 1895, by Mr. Draynor, at Trestler Island, 

 Vaudreuil, on the Ottawa River, about 25 miles 

 west of Montreal. Mr. Draynor had them stuffed, 

 and donated them to the museum of the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal. 



