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at a small lake about eight miles northwest of Red Deer, Alberta. 

 (Dippie.) Breeds throughout northwestern Canada. One of the 

 rarer ducks. I have both eggs and young taken in the downy 

 stage at Long Lake, Manitoba. A set of seven eggs in my col- 

 lection was taken out of a tree at Long Lake. It appears that 

 when trees are scarce, as in Assiniboia, along the Missouri Coteau, 

 this bird will lay its eggs in a hole in a bank as the Belted King- 

 fisher does. There are no trees in that part of Assiniboia, which 

 accounts for this little duck laying its twelve eggs at the end of a 

 Gopher burrow, in a bank along the side of a small lake one mile 

 north of Rush Lake. Another clutch of ten eggs was taken out 

 of a hole in a tree at Oak Lake, Manitoba, May 25th, i8go. The 

 eggs are more rounded than those of any other duck. The 

 eggs of the Buffle-head are larger than those of the Teal and 

 of a darker and warmer tint. (Raine.) A common migrant. It 

 breeds at St. Clair Flats, Ont. {W. Saunders.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Eight specimens. Two taken in Toronto marsh, two at Indian 

 Head, Assa., two at Edmonton, Alberta, and two at Agassiz, 

 British Columbia. 



LVII. HABELDA Stephens. 1824. 



154. Old-squaw. Long-tailed Duck. 



. Harelda hyemalis (Linn.) C. L. Brehm. 1855. 



Common on the whole coast of Greenland, breeds also on 

 the Parry Islands, and on the land westward of Davis Strait. 

 {Arct. Man.) Very common along the whole Atlantic coast 

 south of Greenland. Breeds in Ungava Bay {Turner)., and doubt- 

 less north of Hudson Bay. Spreadborough noticed a pair off 

 Cape Jones, in June, 1896. Payne found them very common in 

 Prince of Wales Sound, Hudson Strait, reaching there about 

 June 1st, 1885. Common in the Gulf and River St. Lawrence and 

 westward to Lake Ontario, and occasionally as far west as London, 

 Ont. Raine reports that in the winter of 1898 thousands of these 

 ducks might have been seen any day in Toronto harbour. 



Richardson, Ross and Macfarlane report it breeding along the 

 Arctic coast, and Macfarlane says ii breeds in large numbers on 



