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creeks from December to February; also formerly common in- 

 land, especially during March. Now not more than tolerably 

 common. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Nov. 26, 1884, Nov. 2, 1888 

 (L. B. W.) ; Portland, Oct. 25, 1890; Bantam Lake, Litchfield, 

 Oct. 23, 1905 (E. S. W.) ; H. Sanford reports them on same date 

 from same locality.^ 



Latest record. New Haven, Feb. 13, 1894, April 10, 1882 

 (A. H. Baldwin) ; Portland, April 26, 1887. 



Unusual record. July 14, 1858, Lyme,- female taken by R. 

 Champion reported in MS. Journal of Jno. C. Comstock 

 (J. H. S.). 



Harelda hyemalis (Linnseus). Old-squaw. 



An abundant winter resident on the Sound from November 

 to April. Less common, if not rather rare, inland. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Oct. 24, 1895. 



Latest record. New Haven, May 21, 1888. 



Inland records. Portland, Nov. 6, 1888, Oct. 15, 1890, March 

 23, 1894, Oct. 18, 1897, Oct. 14, 1905; Litchfield, Oct. 19, 1907, 

 one taken (E. S. W.). 



Summer records. June 17, 1896, an adult male in nuptial 

 dress, prevented from going north by an old fracture of the wing, 

 taken at New Haven by A. R. Andrews (in coll. of L. B. B.) ; 

 Woodmont, Aug. 2-4, 1906, three seen (A. A. S.). 



Breeding record. A pair with young was seen near Little 

 Gull Island at the eastern end of the Sound in the summer of 

 1886 by L. C. S. Mr. Grinnell in Merriam's Birds of Connecti- 

 cut^ notes that they occasionally breed here, though probably 

 these are " pensioners." 



Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus.) Harlequin Duck. 



The only record for this state appears in Job, The Sport of 

 Bird Study: "Mr. Williams examined a male (Histrionicus 

 histrionicus) in full plumage shot by Matthew Parsons on Old 

 Park Lake, Winsted, in October, seven or eight years ago "^ 

 (1900 or 1901). 



Camptorhynchus labradorius (Gmelin). Labrador Duck. 



1 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 292. 

 * Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 127. 



