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Dafila acuta (Linn.). 

 Pintail. 



Very rare transient visitor. 



The only records are the following. Turner records a female 

 young of the year taken at the mouth of the Koksoak River and an 

 adult at Davis Inlet. Presumably both are fall records. Stearns 

 records the capture of one specimen of a pair seen at Old Fort Island, 

 and adds that another was taken near the same place a short time 

 before. 



We obtained the skin of a young male prepared by the Eskimos 

 at Hopedale and saw the skin of another. Doth birds were believed 

 to have been taken the previous autumn. 



[Aix sponsa (Linn.). Wood Duck. — Stearns ('83) states that this 

 duck is "not rare in the interior" of Labrador, but it seems doubtful if this 

 report is based on good evidence.] 



Aythya americana (Eyt). 

 Redhead. 



Very rare transient visitor. 



This duck is probably a rare fall migrant to the coast of Labrador. 

 None have been reported by those who have penetrated to the interior 

 of the peninsula. The only definite record is that of Stearns who 

 saw one on September 23, 1880, at Baie des Roches on the southern 

 coast. Cooke ('06, p. 42) says: "An individual was taken in the fall 

 in southeastern Labrador." He perhaps refers to this record. 



Aythya marila (Linn.). 

 Greater Scaup Duck. 



Rare summer resident in northwestern Labrador. 



According to Macoun ('00), a few were observed by Spreadborough 

 in James Bay and in the interior of Labrador in 1896, and a set of 

 six eggs was taken June 16, 1896, near Whale River on James Bay. 

 The only record for the east coast is that of a specimen shot near 

 Nain in October, 1899 (Bigelow, '02). Dr. R. Bell gives the Lesser 

 Scaup Duck as breeding in large numbers on Nottingham Isle in 

 Hudson Strait and at Churchill and York Factory in Hudson Bay, 

 but as Macoun says, it is more probable that the birds were A . marila. 



