CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 25 



Histrionicus histrionicus. 



HARLEQUIN DUCK. 



According to Mr. FANNIN this bird is abundant in British 

 Columbia, and Dr. COUES reports it breeding in the Rocky 

 Mountains, near the United States boundary. Between the 

 Rockies and Montreal it occurs accidentally, the only records 

 being of three examples taken by Mr. LOANE, near Toronto 

 ( Thompson}, and a few observed near Montreal. On the At- 

 lantic coast it is not common, and occurs usually as a migrant, 

 a few wintering in the Bay of Fundy. 



Camptolaimus labradorius. 



LABRADOR DUCK. 



Mr. BOARDMAN reports that this species was quite common 

 in the Bay of Fundy in 1845, but it has since become very rare, 

 and, possibly, may be extinct. A female taken at Grand Manan 

 in 1871 is the last recorded capture, though one is said to have 

 been taken off Nova Scotia a few years later. 



Eniconetta stelleri. 



STEIXER'S DUCK. 



KUMLIEN reports having seen a few of this species in Cum- 

 berland bay, and of shooting one at Disko. 



Somateria mollissima. , / z 3 , 



EIDER. 



An abundant bird along the Atlantic sea-board, from Hud- 

 son's Strait northward, and occasionally found, in winter, at the 

 mouth of the Bay of Fundy. 



