5
Back Bay Basin,
Boston, Mass.
1909.
Feb. 27
(No 5)
one hundred yards while it was repeatedly joined by one
or more females of the Common Golden-eye with which I
was thus enabled to directly compare it. Although this
evidence should not be regarded as sufficient to establish
a positive record of the presence of Barrow's Golden-eye
in the Back Bay Basin I have really no doubt whatever
that the bird to which it relates was a perfectly
typical representative of that species. Dr. C. W. Townsend
saw a similar looking bird near the same place on
February 22. He told me about it on the 24th
where he expressed his conviction that it was an
example of islandica. I saw another, in every respect
similar, in the Basin off the mouth of Stony Brook
on March 1. There can be little doubt, I think,
that all three of these instances relate to one and
the same individual bird. On the morning
Whistler courtship.
Clangula islandica female