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coast. No other observers have recorded it. Cooke says: "Undoubt- 

 edly some pairs breed in Quebec and southern Labrador, though it 

 is as yet unrecorded from there .... except as a rather rare visitant." 



Harelda hyemalis (Linn.). 

 Old-squaw; "Hounds"; "Coc-caw-wee." 



Common summer resident. 



Besides spending the summer commonly, especially in the northern 

 parts, the Old-squaw is an abundant transient visitor, and a few 

 winter in patches of open water off the southern coast, if such occur. 



Cartwright, in 1770, describes this species as follows: "Hound. 

 A water-fowl rather larger than a teal. These birds migrate to the 

 north in large flocks in the spring, and as they fly, make a continual 

 noise, than which nothing can more resemble the cry of a pack of 

 beagles when in chase. When, and how they return to the south 

 again I am unacquainted." Gurdon Trumbull in "Names and 

 portraits of Birds" published in 1888, gives as one of the synonyms 

 of this bird, "Hound, a name applied in Newfoundland (the musical 

 gabble of a flock being likened to the cry of hounds)." We found the 

 name "Hound" still in common use along the Labrador coast. 



Cartwright gives May 16th at Sandwich Bay for the date of arrival 

 of Old-squaws in 1776, which means simply that open water appeared 

 about that time. 



On July 28, 1833, Audubon found several broods of Old-squaws on 

 a large freshwater lake at Bradore, but it is doubtful if many breed 

 there at the present day owing to constant persecution by the natives. 

 Prazar ('87) observed it at Cape Whittle as a migrant only, and saw 

 none after the first week of June. In Ungava, Turner found it breed- 

 ing, Weiz ('66) gives it as breeding at Okkak, and a pair was seen 

 in June, 1896, by Spreadborough, at Cape Jones, Hudson Bay. Low 

 ('06) found it very common in the northern parts of Hudson Bay; it 

 breeds "on the islands of the ponds." 



Mr. Schmitt at Nain told us that the Old-squaw breeds in that 

 vicinity early in July. 



i j Histrionicus histrionicus (Linn.). 



Harlequin Duck; "Lord and Lady." 



Common summer resident in northern, common transient visitor 

 in southern Labrador. 



