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at she did not move. I several times passed within a foot of the 

 nest without looking toward it, then walking back would look at 

 the bird, when she rose immediately. (/. M. Macoun.) Before 

 or about the time that the young are hatched and brought to the 

 ponds by their mothers, the males have forsaken their usual 

 haunts on these and have left for the open sea. This occurs 

 early in August. The nests are placed almost anywhere on the 

 flat ground near the ponds, usually on a little rise. ■ On June I2th 

 I found a nest and nine fresh eggs about forty feet from the village 

 pond on St. Paul. Island. It was placed on a little hillock on the 

 killing-ground. When flushed, about ten feet off, the bird flew 

 directly to its mate. Leaving the eggs, I returned soon to find 

 that she had been back, had covered them completely with 

 down and dry short grass, and returned to the pond. June 17th, 

 before 8 a.m., I found a nest^-merely a few pieces of short 

 grass-stems — containing one egg. Each morning thereafter at 

 the same time I found another egg and more nest-material, 

 including, from the second morning, an addition of black down, 

 which was always placed on and around the eggs, not beneath, 

 and which was evidently from th6 bird's own breast. {William 

 Palmer.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Three specimens. One taken at Toronto by Mr. S. Herring, 

 another in Hudson Bay by Dr. R. Bell, and the third at St. John, 

 New Brunswick, by Mr. Chamberlain. 



Our eggs of this species were taken at Whale River, Ungava 

 Bay, Labrador, June i6th, 1896, by Mr. G. B.oucher. 



LVIII. HISTRIONIGUS Lesson. 1828. 



155. Harlequin Duck. 



Histrionicus histrionicus (Linn.) Boucard. 1876. 



Observed on the east coast of Greenland ; most common 

 between Lat. 62° to 65° N. ; rarer to the northward. {Arct. Man.) 

 Breeds at Godhavn, Vestbjord and other places in Greenland. 

 {Witige.) A common summer migrant in Newfoundland, breed- 

 ing on the borders of lakes and rivers. (Reeks.) A rare winter 

 migrant around Nova Scotia. (Downs.) A rare spring and autumn 

 visitant in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain^ 



