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In Greenland this species is confined to the west coast, where it is resident, breeding from Juliane- 

 haab (perhaps even Nanortalik) north to Godthaab or even Sukkertoppen and Hoi- Greenland 

 stenborg (Holboll, 1846; Reinhardt, 1861; Schioler, Deichmann, in Millais, 1913). In Iceland 

 Iceland, too, it is a resident bird, breeding chiefly on the Myvatn, but also in various other localities 

 (Slater, 1901; Hantzsch, 1905; Millais, 1913; el id.). 



Winter Range 



In winter Barrow's Golden-eye is found regularly as far north as southern Alaska (Portage Bay). 

 where it is common (Hartlaub, 1883; Willett, 1921; Bailey, MS.). On the coast of A.i as k a 

 British Columbia and Vancouver it is only moderately common (Kermode, 1904; 

 Taverner, 1917; A. Brooks, in litt.), though on the coasts of Washington it is said to be „ 1 1S . . 

 common (W. L. Dawson and Bowles, 1909), and in Oregon it is fairly abundant about 

 Fort Klamath (J. C. Merrill, 1888). In California it is a rare bird, most of the speci- Western 

 mens coming from San Francisco Bay and none having ever been taken south of that 

 point (Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, 1918). 



In the interior a few winter in Montana (A. A. Saunders, 1921), many in Idaho (J. C. Merrill, 

 1897), Wyoming (Grave and Walker, 1913), Utah (Henshaw, fide Baird, Brewer and T . . 

 Ridgway, 1884; specimens in U.S. National Museum) and Colorado (Felger, 1909; L. J. 

 Hersey and Rockwell, 1909; Bergtold, 1924). It has been taken as late as December 1 in Kansas 

 (Bunker, 1913; H. Harris, 1919) and is said to occur rarely in winter in Missouri (Widmann, 1907), 

 Nebraska (Bruner, Wolcott and Swenk, 1905) and Iowa (R. M. Anderson, 1907). It undoubtedly is 

 found also in Minnesota about Lake Superior (Hatch, 1892) and in Wisconsin along Lake Michigan 

 (Kumlien and Hollister, 1903). It is rare in Illinois (Ridgway, 1895; Woodruff, 1907), in Indiana 

 (A. W. Butler, 1898), in Michigan (Barrows, 1912) and in Ohio (L. Jones, 1903). According to McH- 

 wraith (1894) it has been known to winter on the Ontario side of Lake Huron. It does so rarely in 

 western New York (Elliot, 1898; Eaton, 1901) and no doubt along the St. Lawrence, Atlantic 

 for it winters on the north coast of the Gulf (Merriam, 1882; C. W. Townsend and Allen, Coast 

 1907; C. W. Townsend and Bent, 1910; Comeau, 1909) and on Anticosti (Schmitt,1904). Specimens 

 have been taken on Prince Edward Island (MacSwain, 1908) and Nova Scotia (Downs, 1888), while 

 in New Brunswick it is not uncommon (Chamberlain, 1882). Along the entire coast of New England 

 it is occasionally found in winter (G. M. Allen, 1909; el al.) occurring very rarely in the interior of 

 Maine (O. W. Knight, 1908) and even Vermont (W. P. Smith, 1921). Farther south it is nothing but 

 a straggler, one specimen having been reported from the Potomac River, Virginia (Richmond, 1891) 

 and one very doubtful record being listed for North Carolina (T. G. Pearson, C. S. and H. H. Brimley, 

 1919). 



As aforesaid, the species is resident and very local in Greenland (Holboll, 1846; Schioler, in Millais, 

 1913; etc.) and Iceland (Hantzsch, 1905). Though the majority seem to seek the Greenland 

 southern coasts of Iceland in winter, Millais (1913) has shown that it is fairly well dis- Iceland 

 tributed even at that season. 



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Sporadic Occurrences 



From Iceland this species undoubtedly visits western Europe. Hantzsch (1905) speaks of specimens 

 taken on the Faroes, and two were taken on the Shetlands on March 13, 1913 (Ford-Lindsay, 1913). 

 None of various records for the British Isles is satisfactory (Millais, 1913; Witherby el al., 1919-22). 

 In Norway specimens were taken by Schrader in 1848 and 1851 on Varangerfjord (Passler, 1853). 

 Fallon's (fide Dresser, 1871-81) statement that it occurs in Belgium is inconclusive and we are not 

 in a position to examine properly the French records for Calvados, 1843 (Lesauvage, fid e Tender and 

 Masse, 1907), for Lille, 1829, 1834, and for Bergues (Norquet, fide Paris, 1907). In Spain a young 



