72 >fATUEAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS IX ALASKA. 



did any of my collectors in various parts of tlie Territory secure it. Among hundreds of the 

 laro-e species killed daring my residence at Saint Michaels, a few of the smaller species must 

 certainly have occurred if they reached that region. 



Atthya collaeis (Douov.). Ring-necked Duck. 



This species is resident, but not common, on the Xear Islands, according to Mr. Turner. 



Glaucionetta clangula a:mericana (Bonap.). American Golden-eye (Esk. 

 Yii-stlh). 



In the Aleutian Islands this bird is a winter resident, as observed by Dall, and the same author 

 records it as the first duck killed at Xulato, May 3, 1868, and as always being one of the first 

 arrivals along the Yukon. 



It is a common duck along the rivers of the interior and reaches the sea-coast at the Yukon 

 mouth in the breeding season. 



Dall bought a skin of this bird from Indians on the Y'ukon, near Mission; it was stuffed and 

 ornamented with beads, but instead of being used as an ornament for the lodge, as recorded, it is 

 really a child's toy, as are the Harlequin Duck-skins mentioned in the following pages. 



On the coast of Bering Sea the Golden-eye is an extremely rare duck, occurring merely as a 

 straggler. The last of September, 1880, I found a party of four birds of the year in a pond near 

 Saint Michaels and secured three of them. 



During over four years collecting from the Yukon mouth north along the coast of Bering 

 Sea and the Arctic to Point Barrow these four birds were the only ones of their kind seen by me, 

 excepting a few skins brought from the interior by my collectors. 



It is not known from any of the islands in Bering Sea north of the Aleutian chain, although 

 likely to occur upon all of them. 



Glaucionetta islandica (Gmel.). Barrow's Golden-eye. 



Specimens of this species were obtained at Sitka by Bischoff during the Telegraph Explorations, 

 and Dall notes it as of rare occurrence upon the Yukon. 



Hartlaub records adult birds from Portage Bay January i, February 21, and young at 

 Chilcat April 24. 



74. Chakitonetta albeola (Linn.). Bufliehead. 



Like the preceding species the Butter-ball is an extremely rare bird on the coast of Bering 

 Sea, but is rather common along the river courses of the interior. Bischoff found it at Sitka, and 

 at the Yukon mouth. Dall notes them as abundant and probably breeding. 



During my visit to the latter point, extending through the last half of May and the first half 

 of June, not a single individual was seen, nor was it found by me along the coast farther to the 

 north. 



Skins were brought me from several places in the interior, however, and it appears to increase 

 in abundance as the Upper Yukon is approached. They remain late in the fall, as a specimen was 

 taken at Fort Reliance on October 7; and the spring of 1877, before my arrival at Saint Michaels, 

 a specimen was said to have been killed about the middle of May. 



Hartlaub records it as numerous at Portage December 28 to March 1. 



Bean found this species rather common about Unalaska Island the first of October, 1880. 



It is a winter visitor to the Near Islands. In January, 1883, Stejueger obtained a single 

 specimen on one of the Commander Islands, making the first record for the species on the Asiatic 

 side of the Pacific. 



Clangula. htemalis (Linn.). Old Squaw (Esk. JihlUdugM), 



The Old Squaw is the first Duck to reach high northern latitudes in spring, and along the 

 Alaskan coast of Bering Sea is one of the most abundant species during the summer. 



