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Range. — North America. Breeds from the upper Yukon (rarely 

 Yukon mouth), the lower Mackenzie, Great Slave Lake, and central 

 Keewatin south to British Columbia, northern Montana, and central 

 Ontario; winters from the Aleutian Islands, British Columbia, Idaho, 

 Colorado, Missouri, southern Michigan, western New York, and 

 New Brunswick south to northern Lower California, central Mexico 

 (Jalisco), and Florida; recorded from Hawaii, Greenland, Newfound- 

 land, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and Great Britain. 



Genus HARELDA Stephens. 



Harelda Stephens, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 174. Type, by 

 orig. desig.. Anas glacialis Linn^us = A. hyemalis Linn^us. 



Har61da hyemSIis (Linn^us). Old-squaw. [154.] 



Anas hyemalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. (Northern 

 provinces of Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from 

 islands of Bering Sea, Arctic coast of Alaska, Melville Island, Welling- 

 ton Channel, Grinnell Land, and northern Greenland south to Aleutian 

 Islands, east central Mackenzie, northern Hudson Bay, and south- 

 eastern Ungava; winters from the Aleutian Islands south regularly to 

 Washington, rarely to San Diego Bay, California, and in southern 

 Greenland, and from Gulf of St. Lawrence south regularly to the Great 

 Lakes and North Carolina, and rarely to Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, 

 and Florida. • 



Genus HISTRIONICUS Lesson. 



Histrionicus Lesson, Manuel d'Orn., II, 1828, 415. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Anas histrionica Linn^us. 



Histridnicus histri6nicus (Linn^us). Harlequin Duck. [155.] 



Anas histrionica Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 127. (New- 

 foundland.) 



Range. — Northern North America and eastern Asia. Breeds 

 from the Kowak and Yukon rivers, Alaska, the Arctic coast, and 



