CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 27 



Oidemia deglandi. 



WHITE- WINGED SCOTER. 



The "White-winged Coot" of our gunners. A common 

 bird throughout the entire Dominion, breeding from about lati- 

 tude 50 northward to the Arctics. Winters in the Middle States 

 and Southern California. 



Oidemia perspicillata. 



SURF SCOTER. 



This species is common during the migrations on both sea 

 coasts, but is rarely seen in the interior, though it breeds in Great 

 Slave Lake and in Hudson's Bay, where Dr. BELL found it in 

 " immense numbers." On the Atlantic coast it breeds from the 

 north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Northern Labrador. 

 It winters in the Southern States and Lower California. 



Erismatura rubida. 



RUDDY DUCK. 



This species is more abundant in the interior than on either 

 sea-board. It occurs only as a migrant in the Maritime Provinces, 

 but spends the summer in Manitoba, and Dr. COUES found it 

 nesting at Turtle Mountain, near latitude 49. In winter it goes 

 to Cuba and northern South America. 



Chen hyperborea. 



LESSER SNOW GOOSE. 



An abundant bird on the mainland of British Columbia, but 

 uncomrhon on Vancouver Island. It has been found in Illinois ; 

 Dr. BELL records one taken at Fort Churchill ; and Mr. BOARD- 

 MAN has a specimen . taken in the Bay of Fundy. It breeds 

 in Alaska, and winters in Southern California, 



