840 AMERICAN GAME. 
persons in the continual habit of shooting fowl on the 
great rice-flats of Algonac on Lake St. Clair, on the 
Chatham marshes at the mouth of the Thames river on 
the same lake, and on the pime-swamps of the Aus 
Canards, near Amherstberg, an affluent of the Detroit 
river—all of which localities are literally alive with 
wild-fowl at the proper season. 
I have since heard from an officer in H. M. Royal 
Canadian Rifles of two of those birds being killed near 
Prescott, on the St. Lawrence; but they were utterly 
unknown to the inhabitants there; and he wrote to me 
to make inquiries as to their species and name. During 
the present summer I learned also, from my friend Mr. 
Dotty, M. C. for Wisconsin, that during the whole winter 
they are exceedingly abundant, wherever open water is 
to be found, on Lake Winnebago and the rivers of that 
region, coming late in the autumn and disappearing in 
the spring. 
Every thing, therefore, confirms me in my first idea, 
that this is an as yet nondescript duck, nondescript cer- 
tainly as a fowl of the United States, whose summer 
haunts are far up in the arctic seas, and the winter limits 
of whose migrations do not extend below 44° 30'_N. 
latitude. In this view, I have taken the liberty of sug- 
gesting, should it prove to be hitherto undescribed and 
unnamed, the propriety of designating it the “Lake 
Huron Scoter,” from its locality, and its Fesemblance to 
that class of ducks, and, in Latin, “ Fuligula bimacu- 
