1908.] BIRDS. 281 



observed the species on Marian Lake. July 31; and on MacTavish 

 Bay, August 25. On their return trip Alfred E. Preble and Merritt 

 Cary noted flocks near Athabaska Landing. Alberta, August 31 and 

 September 7. 



In the spring of 100-1 I first observed this species at Fort Simpson, 

 May 3, noting two. I saw others on May 4. .">. and 11. and collected a 

 female on the last date. During the .remainder of the month the 

 bird was only noted once or twice. While descending the Mackenzie 

 T saw one near the mouth of Xahanni River, June 3; and several 

 between Fort Good Hope and the site of the old fort, June 25 and 

 26, collecting a male on the former date. 



Richardson, under the name Anas <-r<-<-<-<t, gives a description of a 

 male killed at Fort Franklin." Ross records the species as common 

 in the Mackenzie River district north to Peel River, ami as having 

 been collected at Fort Simpson. 6 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway 

 state that Kennicott saw it on October -2 at Fort Liard. and found it 

 abundant at Fort Resolution : they note its occurrence also at Fort Rae, 

 La Pierre House, and Big Island : ' and a skin from the latter locality 

 is still in the National Museum. In the vicinity of Fort Anderson, 

 MacFarlane found it one of the rarest of the breeding ducks, dis- 

 covering but one nest during the several seasons spent there/' In 

 the spring of ISO", Spreadborough found greenwings abundant 

 about Edmonton, where the birds arrived about April IT, and were 

 •common by April 24. Nests containing and 7 eggs were found 

 Ma}' 25 and June 1. respectively. 6 



J. Alden Loring found it common along the route between Edmon- 

 ton and the Rocky Mountains in the summer of 1806, and shot one 

 a short distance west of Edmonton, November 3. 



Querquedula discors (Linn.). Blue-winged Teal. 



This duck is a rather rare or local summer resident north to Great 

 Slave Lake. Ross recorded it as being found north to Fort Resolu- 

 tion, but as being rare/ Kennicott noted one at Fort Resolution 

 May 7, L860/ and a specimen taken by him there June 8 | I860], is still 

 in the National Museum. The Museum catalogue also records a 

 specimen collected at Fort Simpson. J. Alden Loring found the 

 species common at Edmonton, Alberta, in September, 1804, and on the 

 trail between Edmonton and Jasper House in the early autumn of 



°Fauna Boreali-Americana, II. p. 443, L831. 

 & Nat. Hisi. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 287, 1862. 

 c Water Birds N. A.. II, p. 7, 1884. 

 aproc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 420, 1891. 

 *Macoun, Cat. Canadian Birds, Pari I. p. 82, 1900. 

 fNat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 287, 1862. 

 CTrans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I. p. L70, 1869. 



