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the Athabasca. Farther south it nests rather rarely about Edmonton (Stansell, 1909; Taverner, 

 1919) and Buffalo Lake (C. B. Horsbrugh, 1915, 1918) though it does so commonly along the upper 

 Saskatch- Red Deer River (Taverner, 1919). In Saskatchewan, J. and J. M. Macoun (1909) 

 ewan found Golden-eyes nesting near Methye Portage, La Loche Lake (Buffalo Lake) and 



Buchanan (1920) saw large numbers in May and June along the Beaver and Churchill Rivers, taking 

 one in September as far north as Fort du Brochet. Raine (1892) says he took nests at Indian Head 

 and Ferry (1910) records finding the species at Quill Lake in June and July. It is evidently not a 

 f. ... common nester in Manitoba, though it is recorded to have bred at Reaburn, Shoal 



Lake, Swampy Island, Waterhen Lake and Qu'Appelle (E. E. Thompson, 1891 ; J. and 

 J. M. Macoun, 1909). 



In Keewatin, Preble (1902) found Golden-eyes rather common between Norway House and Ox- 

 ford House in July, and observed others all along the Hill and Hayes Rivers to York Factory. J. and 

 „ . . J. M. Macoun (1909) say that specimens have been taken even at Fort Churchill, and 



Forster (fide Preble, 1902) noted it along the Severn River. In southern Ontario the 

 Canada species is known to have nested once near Sudbury (U.S. Biological Survey) and it is 



Labrador sa '^ *° ^ ave done so near Ottawa in 1894 (White, fide J. and J. M. Macoun, 1909). In 

 northern Ontario Spreadborough (fide J. and J. M. Macoun, 1909) found it a common 

 breeding bird along the Missinabi and Moose Rivers. Eastward in the Province of Quebec, Low 

 (1913) met with the species on Lake Mistassini in May and on the upper Hamilton River. L. M. 

 Turner (MS.) took a specimen in July on Davis Inlet and specimens are said to have been seen as far 

 north as Ungava Bay (Cooke, 1906) but C. W. Townsend and Allen (1907) state that it breeds only 

 south of the Hamilton River and along the northern coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as at the 

 mouth of the Mingan River, near Eskimo Point, Godbout and Natashquan (C. W. Townsend and 

 Bent, 1910; Comeau, 1909; U.S. Biological Survey). It is said to be resident also on Anticosti 

 (Schmitt, 1904), while in Newfoundland it is a rather common breeding bird (Porter, 1900; Arnold, 

 1912). It nests also on the Gaspe Peninsula (C. W. Townsend, 1920a), on Prince Edward Island 

 (MacSwain, 1908) and in New Brunswick (Philipp and Bowdish, 1919) and is said to do so in 

 northern Nova Scotia, too (Downs, 1888). 



In the eastern United States the Golden-eye nests in northern Maine in some numbers (O. W. 

 Eastern Knight, 1908; and others), in western Maine on Lake Umbagog (Brewster, 1900) and 



States j n northern Vermont (Cooke, 1906; U.S. Biological Survey) as well as in northeastern 



New York and in Onondaga County (Eaton, 1901). Farther west Golden-eyes nest in northern Mich- 

 Central ig an (Cooke, 1906), in northern Wisconsin (Kumlien and Hollister, 1903), in northern 

 States Minnesota (Roberts, 1919; C. E. Johnson, 1920), in North Dakota (Job, 1899; Bent, 

 Western 1901-02; V. Bailey, U.S. Biological Survey), in northwestern Montana (A. A. Saunders, 

 States 1921) and in Wyoming (Cary, 1917). No doubt a few breed in Washington, too. It is 

 said to be a rare summer resident in eastern Oregon (Pope, 1895-96) and occurs in the Barr Lake 

 region of Colorado in summer (Felger, 1909). In fact a specimen, presumably a crippled bird, was 

 taken as far south as Cat Island, off the Mississippi coast as late as June 15, 1894 (Beyer, Allison and 

 Kopman, 1907). 



The Golden-eye does not occur regularly in Greenland, though it has been taken there once 

 Europe near Gothaab on January 16, 1906 (Schioler, 1907), and it is not a regular visitor to 



Greenland Iceland. There are several records of its occurrence there in summer (Slater, 1901 ; 

 Iceland Hantzsch, 1905) and it very probably nests there occasionally, escaping notice because 



British of its similarity to Barrow's Golden-eye. Millais (1913) says he saw a female and 



s es young on the Sog River in July. It is not known to breed on the Faroes or Shet- 



lands, though on the latter group and in parts of Scotland the species has been repeatedly 

 seen in summer and very young birds, hardly capable of migrating, are seen in August (Seebohm, 

 1885; H. Saunders, 1899; Millais, 1913; Witherby et al, 1919-22). The several notices of its breed- 

 ing in England are unsatisfactory. 



