CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 95 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One specimen bought with the Holman collection. 

 LV. CLANGULA Leach. 1819. 



151. American Golden-eye. Whistler. 



Clangula clangula americana Faxon. 1896. 



An abundant winter resident on the Atlantic coast. Often 

 breeding in trees in Newfoundland. {Reeks.) Seen on the Moose 

 River and James Bay in June, 1897 ; none seen in the interior of 

 Labrador. {Spreadborough.) Specimens taken in Ungava Bay and 

 at Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay ; seen passing north of Lake Mis- 

 tassini by Mr. J. M. Macoun on May 3rd, 1885. In Ontario and 

 Quebec it is a common migrant, but we have no records of it 

 breeding in these provinces. 



This species is tolerably common in Manitoba and in the wooded 

 part of eastern Assiniboia, where it breeds, and northerly to Nor- 

 way House, north of Lake Winnipeg, where it was found by Dr. 

 R. Bell. Without any doubt its chief breeding-ground is toward 

 the mouth of the Saskatchewan, and down the Nelson and 

 Chufchill rivers. As it breeds chiefly in poplar trees, it will be 

 found 'generally breeding where these trees are in profusion. 

 The writer has found this bird breeding on Buffalo Lake, near 

 Methye Portage, in Lat. 56° N. Ross says it extends to the Arctic 

 coast in the Mackenzie River valley, and is not rare. 



This is an extremely rare bird on the western and northern 

 coasts of Alaska. In four years I saw only four birds. It is a 

 common duck in the interior, and reaches the mouth of the Yukon 

 in the breeding season. {Nelson.) It winters on the west coast 

 from Unalaska (Turner) to the Fraser River and Lake Okanagan, 

 where it is abundant. {Brooks.) 



Breeding Notes. — Fairly common in Manitoba and Alberta. 

 Downy young shot at Reaburn, Manitoba, July 4th, 1893. {Dippie.) 

 In June, 1892, at Deep Lake, Indian Head, Assa., various nests of 

 this species were taken in hollow trees. One was found in a 

 hollow Cottonwood, about fifteen feet from the ground, and 

 another in a hollow elm tree, about twenty-five feet from the 

 ground. This nest was made of rotten wood lined with down. 



