('. II. }h rrnliii— lii I'ds (if' ( '(linn ft iciil. \'1~ 



nidVi' and, not w itlist;iii(liiiu,- tlicir iiiiiiiciiM- miiiiliris, il is no cmsv 

 tusk to a])|)ro:icli williiii ^iinsliol ol' llic tl.icU. 'riioii._ili as stricilv 

 niaiitiiiu' as any ol" our ducks, they liavi- occasionally slrayi-il so far 

 into the interior as Central Ohio (Wiu'aton). Mr. (Hinnell tells nie 

 that they occasionally hri'i'd liere, l»ut these niav he wunnded hirds — 

 " pensionei-s" as they are eoumionly called. Dr. Wood has taUi n it 

 on tlie Connecticut lliver above Hartford, but it is lare then'. 



251. Camptolaemns Labradorius (Cmt^tiu) Cmy. L;ii.i;i<i(.r Duck; 



Pied-Duck. 



Avery rare winter visitor. Linsley took it at Slrat ford, Cimn. 

 Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, says that this s])i'cies was ''sent IVoni 

 Connecticut to Mrs. Bhiekburn,* in Ensj.land."' 



252. Somateria mollissima (Linue) Loach. Eider Duck. 



A rare winter visitant along our coast. Linsley states that " one 

 or two Eider Ducks were killed" at Stratford, Conn., by Mr. Lucius 

 Curtis. Mr. Grinnell tells me, that he saw a sijecimen killed on tlu- 

 Sound, near Milford, Conn., by a gunner (Samuel Brown by name) 

 May 29th, 1877, and that two Eider Dncks, probablt/ of this species, 

 were shot there in the fall of 1874. 



253. Somateria spectatailis (Linue) Boie. King Eider. 



A rare winter visitor, like the last, and also taken at Stratford, 

 Conn., by Linsley, who says of it : "I have obtained here this season 

 two specimens of the King Duck, said never to have been seen here 

 before. They are among the best for the table."f Giraud also states 

 that " an adult male in perfect plumage was shot on Long Island 

 Sound, in the winter of 1889. "J 



254. CEdemia Americana (Wilson) Swainson. Black Scoter; Gray Coot. 



A tolerably common winter resident, but less so than eithi'r of the 

 following. Linsley had it from Stratford. Have seen it early in 

 October (October 4, 1876), and again in November, but the hunters 

 reo^ard it as rather rare. It sometimes visits the Great I>akes in 

 winter, and Dr. Wheaton writes me that one was taken near Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, in Dec. 1876. 



* Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 559, 1785. f Catal. Birds of Conn., p. 270, 184:!. 

 :|: Birds of Long Island, p. .133, 1844. 



