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observed tlie species on Marian Lake. Jnly 31; and on MacTavish 

 Bay, August 25. On their return trip Alfred E. Preble and Merritt 

 Cary noted flocks near Athabaska Landing, Alberta, August 31 and 

 S^eptember 7. 



In the spring of 1904: I first observed this species at Fort Simpson, 

 May 3. noting two. I saw others on May 4, 5, and 11, and collected a 

 female on the last date. During the remainder of the month the 

 bird was only noted once or twice. ^Aliile descending the Mackenzie 

 I saw one near the mouth of Xahanni Eiver, Jtnie 3; and several 

 betAveen Fort Good Hope and the site of the old fort, Jttne 25 and 

 26, collecting a male on the former date. 



Eichardson, under the name ^Im/.s ci-t^-ca, gives a description of a 

 male killed at Fort Franklin." Eoss records the species as common 

 in the Mackenzie Eiver district north to Peel Eiver. and as having 

 been collected at Fort Simpson.'' Baird, Brewer, and Eiclgway 

 state that Kennicott saw it on October 2 at Fort Liard, and found it 

 abundant at Fort Eesolution : they note its occurrence also at Fort Eae, 

 La Pierre House, smd Big Island ; ^ and a skin from the latter locality 

 is still in the National Museum. In the vicinity of Fort Anderson, 

 MacFarlane found it one of the rarest of the breeding dticks, dis- 

 covering but one nest during the several seasons spent there.^^ In 

 tlie spring of 1897. Spread boron 2l\ found green Avings abundant 

 about Edmonton. Avhere the birds arrived about April 17, and Avere 

 comnum by April 24. Xests containing 9 and 7 eggs were found 

 !May 25 and June 1, respectiA^ely.^ 



J. Alden Loring found it common along the route between Edmon- 

 ton and the Eocky Mountains in the summer of 1896, and shot one 

 a short distance Avest of Edmonton, NoA^ember 3. 



ftuerquedula discors (Linn.). Blue-Avinged Teal. 



This duck is a rather rare or local summer resident north to Great 

 Slave Lake. Eoss recorded it as being found north to Fort Eesolu- 

 tion, but as being rare.'^ Kennicott noted one at Fort Eesoltition 

 May 7, 1860,^' and a specimen taken by him there June 8 [1860], is still 

 in the National Museum. The Museum catalogue also records a 

 specimen collected at Fort Simpson. J. Alden Loring found the 

 species common at Edmonton, Alberta, in September, 1894, and on the 

 trail betAveen Edmonton and Jasper House in the early autumn of 



« Fauna Boreali-Americana, II, p. 443, 1831. 

 »Nat. Hist. Rev., II (second ser.), p. 287, 1862. 

 « Water Birds N. A., II, p. 7, 1884. 

 ^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 420, 1891. 

 ^Macoini, Cat. raiiadi.-ni T^.iids. Part I, p. 82, 1900. 

 ^Nat. Hist. Rev., 11 (second ser.), p. 287, 1862. 

 0 Trans. Cliicago Acad. Sci., I, p. 170, 1869. 



