BIEDS OF NOKTHEEN CANADA SOS- 



me a female bird, but no eggs, spring 1884, and while there 

 are no examples of either from the Anderson, New Cale- 

 donia, Fort Chipewyan, Cumberland, or the distant Mac- 

 kenzie River, there is much reason to believe that this 

 particular duck is not only tolerably numerous, but also 

 breeds annually throughout the sections of country in ques- 

 tion. Eichardson says it breeds in numbers to latitude 68° 

 north. 



The colour of the eggs is pale buff. Mr. Macoun mentions 

 that on a small knoll in a marsh at Crane Lake he found a 

 nest in a tuft of grass, on June 11th, 1894. It contained 

 five fresh eggs, while at the same time young of the mallard, 

 of a good size, were swimming around. The Ottawa 

 Museum specimens consist of two pairs of birds and several 

 sets of eggs — ^part taken at Crane Lake, June, 1894, and 

 part at Cypress Lake, Saskatchewan, on 29th June, 1895. 



137. Baldpate — Mareca americana (Gmelin). 



A single skin was received from Fort Eesolution, and 

 sent to Dr. Bell, in the summer of 1885 ; but the species is 

 common enough in most of the above defined sections right 

 up to the Anderson and the " Barrens " to the eastward 

 thereof, and it is also present in New Caledonia District.. 

 In the early sixties of the last century, a number of nesta 

 were discovered in the neighbourhood of Fort Anderson, and 

 a few also near Swan Eiver, one of the principal affluents of 

 the Wilmot Horton Eiver. 



Mr. Eoss obtained its eggs in 1861. The Ottawa Museum 

 contains but one pair of birds, and nearly two sets of eggs of 

 this species! 



139. Geeen- WINGED Teal — Nettion carolinensis (Gmelin). 



In June, 1880, Mr. Simpson, of Green Lake, found & 

 nest, holding but one egg, which he supposed to belong to. 

 this teal. It was sent to Mr. Dalgleish, who failed to iden- 



