78 CHECK-LIST OF NOKTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Greenland south to southwestern British Columbia, central Mac- 

 kenzie, northern Ungava, and Newfoundland, and south in the 

 mountains to central California, southwestern Colorado, northeastern 

 Asia, and Iceland; occurs in summer in flocks near the Pribilof and 

 Aleutian islands and on the coast of Washington; winters on the 

 Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Monterey, California, in 

 the interior to Colorado, Missouri, Lake Michigan, and western New 

 York, and on the Atlantic coast from Gulf of St. Lawrence regularly 

 to Maine, rarely to New Jersey, and accidentally to Florida; acci- 

 dental in Europe and not rare in Asia south to Japan. 



Genus CAMPTORHYNCHUS Bonaparte. 



Camptorhynchus Bonapakte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 58. Type, by 

 monotypy. Anas labradoria Gmelin. 



Camptorh^chus labradorius (Gmelin). Labrador Duck. [156.] 



Anas labradoria Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 537. (Connecticut and 

 Labrador.) 



Range. — Formerly, northern Atlantic coasts; supposed to have 

 bred in Labrador; wintered from Nova Scotia south to New Jersey; 

 now extinct. ■ 



Genus POLYSTICTA Eyton. 



Polysticta Eyton, Catal. Brit. Birds, 1836, 58. Type, by monotypy, 

 Anas steUeri Pallas. 



Polysticta st§lleri (Pallas). Steller's Eider. [157.] 



Anas SteUeri Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. vi, 1769, 35, pi. v. (Kam- 

 chatka.) 



Range. — Coast of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds 

 from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the northern coast of Siberia and south 

 to Aleutian Islands; winters on Aleutian Islands and Kenai Peninsula, 

 Alaska, and south on the Asiatic coast to Kuril Islands; accidental in 

 Greenland and Quebec. 



