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Nelson says this duck is a rare straggler in Alaska, but 

 Fannin and Brooks report it tolerably common in British 

 Columbia. The latter says it winters on Lake Okanagan, 

 B.C. Mr. Raine states that on 15th June, 1892, he found 

 three nests containing eggs on a small island where a colony 

 of avocets were nesting. The eggs, like the preceding spe- 

 cies, are dark drab, but of course much smaller in size. The 

 National Museum has ten fine specimens, and a number of 

 sets of eggs of this species, in its Ottawa collection. 



150. Ring-necked Duck — Aythya collaris (Donovan). 



There can be little doubt that at least a few stragglers 

 of this somewhat rare northern duck have been met with at 

 Fort Anderson, and at other points in the extensive district 

 of Mackenzie River to the south, and no doubt also at Fort 

 Chipewyan and elsewhere in Athabasca and Cumberland 

 Districts. The species was not met with by us in New Cale- 

 donia District. A bird was, however, shot by Mr. H. Mackay 

 at Pelican Narrows, Cumberland, in the spring of 1891, 

 and another at Cumberland House about the same time. 

 On June 19, 1891, Mr. Raine, of Toronto, found a nest 

 containing nine eggs at Long Lake, Manitoba ; " the nest 

 was made of sedges and lined with grasses, feathers and 

 down, a basket-shaped structure built in the centre of a 

 tussock of rushes. The eggs are olive gray with a buffy 

 tinge, and are very similar to eggs of the scaup duck in 

 sizie and colour." 



There is but one skin thereof, and no eggs, in the National 

 Museum at Ottawa ! 



151. American Golden Eye — Olangula americana (Bona- 

 parte). 



Although we have never obtained any authenticated 

 examples of its eggs, yet I firmly believe that I have met the 

 bird itself, not only at Forts Simpson, Chipewyan and Cum- 



