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Genus HABELDA Stephens, 1824. 



Harelda hyemalis (LinnEeus). Old-squaw. 



Anas hyemalis Linn^tts, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. 



Anas glacialis Linnjsus, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 202. 



Harelda glacialis "Leach," Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XII, pt. ii, 



1824, 175, pi. 58. 

 Clangula hiemalis Beehm, Handb. Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 933. 

 Harelda hiemalis Beehm, Vogelsang, 1855, 386. 

 Popular synonyms: Old Wife. Long-tailed Duck. Old Molly. 



Scolder. Old Injun, etc. 



A very common winter resident. Large numbers of these 

 ducks are shot each season from the breakwater and piers along 

 the lake front at Chicago. This is wanton destruction, as they 

 are not fit for food. They arrive about the middle of November 

 and remain with us until the last of March. I have found a 

 few as late as May, but I am inclined to think that they were 

 crippled birds. Just before they migrate in the spring, they 

 gather in flocks of considerable size and are quite noisy. 



The Old-squaw Ducks breed in the far north but their fall 

 migrations take them almost to the southern border of the 

 United States. 



Genus SOMATEBIA Leach, 1819. 



Somateria dresseri (Sharpe). American Eider. 



Anas mollissima Wilson, Amer. Orn., VIII, 1814, 122, pi. 71 (neo 



Linnseus). 

 Somateria mollissima Bonapaete, Comp. List, 1838, 57 (part). 

 Somateria dresseri Shaepe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., July 1871, 51, figs. 



1, 2. 

 Popular synonyms: Squaw Duck. Bio Sea Duck. 



A very rare winter resident. Mr. E. W. Nelson reported 

 in 1876 that in his collection he had an immature specimen ob- 

 tained near Chicago in December, 1874, and also stated that they 

 had been noted several times by Dr. H. B. Bannister at Evanston. 

 I am inclined to think that some of the birds seen in this vicinity 

 and reported as individuals of this species are in reality immature 

 scoters. 



The range of the American Eider is a very limited one during 

 the breeding season, reaching only from Maine to Labrador. In 

 winter it passes as far south as the Delaware River and westward 

 to the Great Lakes, where it has been reported on the Ohio, 

 Illinois and Wisconsin shores. 



