October, 1902.] BIRDS OF KEEWATIN. 85 



Factor}' by James McKenzie are recorded in the catalogue of birds in 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



Aythya americana (Eyt.). Redhead. 



Nutting recorded this species and obtained specimens near Chema- 

 wawin, Saskatchewan, in the neighborhood of which "countless num- 

 bers of the red-head breed." « 



Aythya vallisneria (Wils.). Canvas-back. 



Nutting obtained a specimen near the mouth of the Saskatchewan in 

 the summer of 1891.* 



Aythya marila (Linn.). Scaup Duck. 



A specimen was taken August 22 from a large flock on a pond near 

 the shore of the Bay about midway between Fort Churchill and Cape 

 Churchill. These birds were moulting their wing quills, for which 

 purpose they had evidently congregated on this pond, where they were 

 safe from the attacks of predatorj- mammals. 



Aythya aflanis (Eyt.). Lesser Scaup Duck. 



The lesser scaup duck has been reported from a number of localities 

 in the Hudson Bay region, though on account of its close resemblance 

 to the greater scaup the accuracy of some of the records is doubtful. 

 Baird recorded a specimen f rOm Nelson River and considered Forster's 

 record of marila from Severn River'' to refer to the present species.*^ 

 Murray records it from Severn House,* and Bell reports it from Fort 

 Churchill and York Factorj'.-/' 



Clangula clangula americana (Bonap.). Golden-eye. 



Rather common on the larger lakes between Norwaj^ House and 

 Oxford House. At the latter place we took an adult male July 3, 

 but did not shoot any more on our northward trip, although we saw a 

 flock containing about 200 near the outlet of Knee Lake Juh- 6, and 

 daily noted a few on our way to York Factory. After this we did not 

 meet with the species again until we reached Hill River on our return, 

 September 6. Here we found many, and on Knee Lake September 6 

 noted a large flock, probably the same we had observed there two 

 months before. We saw a few moi"e on the Echimamish September 

 15, one of which we collected, and found a large flock on Hairy Lake. 



Macoun records specimens taken at Fort Churchill,!' and Forster 

 notes the occurrence of the species on Severn River.'' 



a Nat. Hist. Bull. Univ. Iowa, II, p. 257, 1893. 



6 Ibid., p. 258, 1893. 



cPhil. Trans., LXII, p. 413, 1772. 



'i Birds of North America, p. 791, 1858. 



«Edin. New Phil. Journ. (new ser.), IX, p. 230, 1859. 



/Kept. Prog. Can. Geol. Surv. 1882-3-4, App. Ill, p. 55DD (1885). 



a Catalogue Canadian Birds, Part I, p. 95, 1900. 



A Phil. Trans., LXII, p. 417, 1772. 



