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2d north of Hamilton Inlet. Again he says ('07, p. 434) : "From the 

 day we entered the George River [Sept. 14, 1905] until we were well 

 down the stream they were plentiful This is apparently a breed- 

 ing ground for them." 



We obtained the skin of a typical obscura from the Eskimos at 

 Hopedale. The bird was undoubtedly killed in that vicinity. We 

 have presented the skin to Mr. Brewster in whose collection it now is. 

 Brewster ('02, p. 187) says that a female in the Bangs collection taken 

 in the Straits of Belle Isle on April 25, 1900, must be referred to obscura. 

 "Another, belonging to Mr. J. D. Sornborger, which, with her brood 

 of ducklings, was captured on July 8, 1896, at Okkak, on the north- 

 eastern coast of Labrador, is intermediate in certain respects between 

 obscura and rubripes, but on the whole perhaps nearer the former." 



Anas obscura rubripes Brewst. 

 Red-legged Black Duck. 



Common summer resident. 



See remarks under obscura. There is only one specimen of this 

 form from Labrador, namely, one taken at Ungava by Turner on July 

 1, 1884. One from Okkak is intermediate as already noted. A 

 good deal can be said in favor of the view that Red-legged Black 

 Ducks are merely old Black Ducks (see Townsend, "Birds of Essex 

 County," pp. 127, 128). 



Mareca americana (Gmel.). 



Baldpate; American Widgeon. 



Rare transient visitor in southern Labrador. 



Stearns says it occurs "as far as Natashquan; said to occur inland 

 at Esquimaux River" and, "a single female of this species was shot 



in Old Fort Bay on November 27, 1880 Said to breed." Packard 



says: "Mr. John Ford assures me it is common in Hamilton Inlet 

 and on the southeast shore of Labrador." "Widgeon" is a name 

 so loosely applied to various species of ducks that the last record at 

 least is of very doubtful value. 



Nettion crecca (Linn.). 



European Teal. 

 Accidental visitor. 



