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records for Saranac Lake (New York), for Maine, where I have seen it myself, for Quebec, for Digby 

 and Halifax (Nova Scotia), for Prince Edward Island and for Godbout on the south Labrador coast 

 (U.S. Biological Survey). 



Winter Range 



In winter the Buffle-head is found regularly on the Aleutian Islands (Nelson, 1887; L. M. Turner, 

 1S86). Indeed specimens have been taken in January on the Commander Islands, off Aleutians 

 the Kamchatkan coast (Stejneger, 1885), as well as on the Pribilovs (G. D. Hanna, Alaska 

 1916). Hartlaub (1883) has recorded it from Portage Bay, Alaska, in December and January, and 

 Littlejohn (U.S. Biological Survey) found it plentiful at Sanakh, while in southeast Alaska it is said 

 to be abundant in the cold season (Willett, 1921; Bailey, MS.). It is found in equally t> - f - u 

 large numbers along the coasts of British Columbia and Vancouver (Fannin, 1891; Columbia 

 Kermode, 1904; Taverner, 1917) and thence southward throughout Washington _ ._ 

 (W. L. Dawson and Bowles, 1909; Rathbun, 1915), Oregon (J. C. Merrill, 1888; c oast 

 Jewett, 1914) and California (Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, 1918). Occasionally 

 specimens have straggled to Oahu, Maui and Laysan in the Hawaiian group (Bryan, 

 1901; Schauinsland, 1899; R. C. L. Perkins, 1903). 



In the interior, specimens have been known to winter as far north as Okanagan Lake, British 

 Columbia (Munro, 1923), Teton County, Montana (A. A. Saunders, 192l), and more commonly in 

 Idaho (J. C. Merrill, 1897), Wyoming (Grave and Walker, 1913), Nevada (Hoffman, T . 

 1881), Utah (fide Cooke, 1906), Colorado (Felger, 1909; W. L. Sclater, 1912; Bergtold, 

 1924) and Arizona (Swarth, 1914). In Texas it is probably a rare bird in the interior (Strecker, 1912), 

 though in the southeast and presumably along the coasts it is common enough (Dresser, 1866; 

 Nehrling, 1882; Carroll, 1900). 



It is abundant on the Louisiana coasts (Mcllhenny, 1897; Beyer, Allison and Kop- Qujf 

 man, 1907) and smaller numbers winter in Alabama (Howell, U.S. Biological Survey), Coast 

 in Arkansas (Howell, 1911), Kentucky (Pindar, 1889), Illinois (Ridgway, 1895), Mississippi 

 Indiana (A. W. Butler, 1898), Michigan (Barrows, 1912), Ohio (W. L. Dawson, 1903) Basin 

 and occasionally New York (Eaton, 1910). On December 27, 1920, a specimen was Great 

 noted as far north as Bowmanville, Ontario (M. G. Gould, 1921). Lakes 



On the Atlantic coast the Buffle-head winters as far north as New Brunswick (Chamberlain, 1882; 

 Dresser, 1871-81) and Nova Scotia (Downs, 1888; H. Lloyd, 1923). It is found in small numbers all 

 along the New England coast (G. M. Allen, 1909; etc., etc.), in the Great Lakes region Atlantic 

 sparingly, in southern New York (Eaton, 1910), New Jersey (W. Stone, 1909), Del- Coast 

 aware (Rhoads and Pennock, 1905) and more commonly in Maryland (Kirkwood, 1895), Virginia 

 (Rives, 1890), North Carolina (T. G. Pearson, C. S. and H. H. Brimley, 1919) and South Carolina 

 (Wayne, 1910). But at Mulberry Plantation, Oakley, South Carolina, Mr. C. Chapman has taken 

 only six out of large numbers of ducks shot in the years 1916-23. Scott (1888, 1892) found it rare 

 on the Gulf coast of Florida, and farther south on the Caloosahatchie Islands, but it winters rarely 

 on the Alabama coast at Mobile Bay and Grand Bay (A. H. Howell, U.S. Biological Survey). Off the 

 coast, the Buffle-head has been taken in Bermuda (J. M. Jones, 1859; S. G. Reid, 1884), once in the 

 Havana Market (Gundlach, 1875) and once at San Juan, Porto Rico (Wetmore, 1916). 



In Mexico, Berlandier (fide Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 1884) met with this species in Tamaulipas 

 and Kennerly (ibid.) saw great numbers in Chihuahua. It has been recorded also from -_ . 

 northern Lower California (Cooke, 1906) and from Mazatlan on the west coast (G. N. 

 Lawrence, 1874). The southernmost records are for Guanajuato and the Valle de Mexico (Duges, 

 1869; Villada, 1891-92) and for La Barca, near Lake Japala, Jalisco (U.S. Biological Survey). 



Stragglers 



The Buffle-head has been taken in Greenland near Gothaab (Reinhardt, 1861) and apparently also 

 near Frederickshaab and Godhaven (fide Cooke, 1906). It has been many times recorded from the 



