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John Bay and Rocky Pass (Bailey, MS.). Specimens have also been taken on Admiralty Island 
(J. Grinnell, 1910). 
The Baldpate is said to breed in the Valle de Mexico (Villada, 1891-92) but this is very unlikely. 
Other sporadic summer occurrences are those for Detroit, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, 
Eastern southern New Brunswick and Halifax (U.S. Biological Survey). There are numerous 
Canada reports of its appearance in southeastern Labrador, but only the record for Old Fort 
Bay seems to be trustworthy (C. W. Townsend and Allen, 1907). Cooke (1906) says it has been 
taken as far east as Newfoundland. 
A word must be said about the reputed occurrence and breeding of this species in northern Iceland. 
Coburn claims to have made this remarkable discovery in the summer of 1899, and in 1901 exhibited 
adult males, females, and nestlings to the British Ornithologists’ Club (Bull. British Ornith. 
Club, vol. 12, p. 14, 1901), at which time no one seems to have questioned him about it. In 
the description of his trip Coburn (1901) says he found the species in three different localities, 
in two of which it was breeding. “The Icelanders knew the male well enough, although as a 
rare visitor, but regarded it as being only a variety of the Common Widgeon. The female they 
could not distinguish at all,” he says. Hantzsch (1905), in his monograph on the birds of Iceland, 
points out that Coburn fails to give any localities for his remarkable find, and says he could not 
reach Coburn by mail. But Dresser and Sharpe, to whom he wrote, seemed inclined to accept 
Coburn’s statement. Hantzsch himself gives an Icelandic name for the species (Ameriskur Ond) 
which would indicate that the natives knew it, as Coburn says. From his account it would seem that 
Coburn was in northwestern Iceland. I might also say that Hartert (1920) regards the whole story 
as incredible, and I have since been informed that Coburn’s work cannot be taken seriously. 
Winter Range 
The Baldpate spends the cold season chiefly in the southern, coastal fresh- or brackish-water 
regions of the United States. On the west coast it is common in the southern part of British Columbia 
British (Kermode, 1904; A. Brooks, in litt.) and is said to be the commonest duck on the 
Columbia coasts of Washington (W. L. Dawson and Bowles, 1909). It is found abundantly 
on the coasts and great lakes of Oregon (Pope, 1895-96; Woodcock, 1902; U.S. Biological Survey), 
in the interior valleys of California (Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, 1918), and in southern Arizona 
Western (Swarth, 1914), southern New Mexico (Cooke, 1906) and southern Texas (Sennett, 
States 1879). On the coasts of Texas it is very plentiful (Sennett, 1878; McAtee, in verbis) 
and it is common in Louisiana also (Beyer, Allison and Kopnian, 1907). In the Mississippi Basin 
it winters far north, reaching even to Illinois (Cooke, 1906). It has even been reported from Idaho 
in late December. It is found along the entire Gulf Coast, but in Florida it does not occur south of 
Fort Bassinger (U.S. Biological Survey). 
On the Atlantic coast it is found in Georgia, very abundantly in South Carolina (Wayne, 1910), 
in great numbers in North Carolina {vide Status), Virginia (Rives, 1890), Maryland (Kirkwood, 
Atlantic 1895) north as far as Baltimore (U.S. Biological Survey), and in Delaware (Rhoads 
Coast and Pennock, 1905). Farther north it occurs in winter only irregularly, on the 
coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and even in Maine (G. M. Allen, 1909). 
South of the United States the Baldpate winters in Lower California (Brewster, 1902) and in 
Mexico proper at least as far south as the Valle de Mexico. Grayson found it common at Mazatlan 
in November (Lawrence, 1874). Salvin and Godman (1897-1904) give Cachuta, So- 
nora, Hermosillo, Presidio de Mazatlan, Guanajuato as specific localities where it has 
been found. Villada (1891-92) says it is common in the Valle de Mexico, and Beebe (1905) found it 
abundant about Lake Chapala. Specimens have also been taken in Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan 
(U.S. Biological Survey). Farther south the species has been taken in western Guatemala at Duenas, 
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