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legs in a game stall in Quincy market, Boston. They had been 
sent from Cape Cod, Mass., the day previous, where they were : 
said to have been shot. They were apparently not more than six 
weeks old and as their wings were not fledged enough to fly a rod, 
they undoubtedly must have been hatched in that locality. 
This is indeed a very eastern range for this species to have bred, 
as I believe its usual breeding habitat is in the region of the 
Rocky Mts. Dr. Elliott Coues writes me “I found the ruddy 
duck breeding abundantly in July, in ponds on Turtle Mt., ex- 
actly on the line of the 49th parallel, between Dakota and the — 
British Possessions, about 150 miles west of Pembina (Red River 
of the North). I obtained many newly hatched young ; eggs were 
laid in June. This is the only breeding place of this species, of 
which I am aware by personal investigation.” 
We have a large migration of this duck through eastern Mas- 
sachusetts in October and November, which would indicate that 
they must also breed more directly north of our state, though pos 
sibly many may follow the chain of great lakes and St. Law 
rence River to the Atlantic states. 
I obtained one of the above specimens which I have in my 
cabinet, and I have no reason to doubt that these birds were 
taken on Cape Cod. nie 
I have seen specimens, taken as far east as Niagara Falls in 
May ; these were in high breeding plumage, though I did not | 
learn that any nests had ever been found in that locality.~ — 
Routuven Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 
IRDS NEW TO THE Fauna or Norra Amertca.—The Gyt - 
falcon of Northern Europe and Siberia (Falco gyrfalco Linn.) ha, 
recently been obtained at Kyska Harbor, one of the western Aler 
tians, by Mr. W. H. Dall, exploring that region under the auspices 
of the U. S. Coast Survey. The specimen is an adult fe i 
perfect plumage, obtained June 30, 1873. On the label are the 
remarks “eye brown,” and “ builds.” The measurements of this 
specimen are as follows :— wing, 14°75; tail, 8:00; culmen, * 
tarsus, 2°30; middle toe, 2°05. The ground color of the u 
parts is a very dark blackish plumbeous, the posterior por 
i. e., the rump and upper tail-coverts (and more indistinctly 
scapulars and wing-coverts), transversely barred with light PY” 
plumbeous. The head and neck, however, are entirely uniform 
