I02 British Diving Ducks 
Lake (Macoun, Cat. Canadian Birds, 2nd ed. p. 100) ; British Columbia (Macoun); 
Banff, B.C. (Raine) ; N.E. Labrador (Hantzsch, /. F. O., 1908, p. 339); Washington 
(Dawson, Auk, 1897, P- 172); I saw specimens killed in summer at Wrangel, Alaska, 1908, 
where it is said to breed in the mountain lakes. " Breeds from Quebec and Washington, 
the mountains of Oregon, south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado, north to Chilkat 
Peninsula, Alaska" (The Water-Fowl Family, p. 148). This duck occurs in Hudson Bay 
in summer, but of its breeding range throughout N. Canada we have little information. 
Allan Brooks, referring to the breeding of this species in the Cariboo district, B.C., says 
in a note to me : — 
"A rather scarce breeder in the neighbourhood of 158-Mile House, but common in La H^che 
Valley. One set of eggs was taken from a hole in a dead Douglas fir, fifty feet from the ground, probably 
the deserted nest of a flying squirrel. The tree stood about four hundred yards from the nearest water. 
The eggs (seven) at this date (17th June) contained large embryos. I saw another nesting-hole, but was 
unable to reach it. The female brought fourteen young ones out from this." 
Migration Range. 
Europe: British Isles. — There are several old records of this species which are not 
reliable.' The most recent occurrence is said to be a young male of this species obtained in 
the river Aide, Suffolk, February i, 1908, and exhibited by Mr. F. Menteith Ogilvie at the 
B. O. C, March 17, 1909 {Bull. B. O. C, xxiii. p. 63). Mr. Ogilvie gave good reasons for 
supposing it might be an immature male of C islandica, and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant expressed 
his opinion that such was the case, but there are no specimens of immature Barrow's 
Golden-Eye in the British Museum, so that identification must be considered unsatisfactory. 
When I had obtained a fine series of immatures, I asked Mr. Ogilvie to send me his bird 
for identification, but he was unable to do so as it had been warehoused. As the bird was 
killed on February ist, identification would be easy by examination of the shape of the 
inner scapulars.^ 
Spain. — Valencia, December 22, 1871 (Dresser). 
Scandinavia. — Has occurred twice in Finmark, Nyborg, Varanger Fjord, 1848, and at 
Vardo, 1851 (Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. p. 604). 
From all accounts I fancy the species must occasionally occur in Finmark; said to 
have occurred in Finland (Palmen, / F. O., 1876, p. 58) and Belgium (Fallon, Oiseaux 
Belg., p. 226). Winters on the south and east coasts of Iceland. 
N. A merica. — Only rarely does Barrow's Golden-Eye range south to the coasts of New 
England and Massachusetts. Even in Newfoundland it is rare on migration, though there 
are specimens in the St. John's Museum. Not uncommon in the Bay of Fundy in winter 
(Dresser), and regularly taken on the coasts of Maine and New Brunswick. Prof. Elliot 
has found it numerous at times on the St. Lawrence, near Ogdensburg; winters chiefly 
in Southern Greenland and South-eastern Alaska. Only rare and occasional in winter 
in N. Carolina, Ohio, Indiana (Butler), Illinois, Minnesota, S. Dakota, Colorado, Utah, 
Idaho, Oregon (Merrill), and California, Wisconsin (C. B. Cory). 
Habits. — The habits of this species seem to be very similar to the Common Golden-Eye. 
In summer I found both males and females unusually tame in Iceland, but this was when 
* See Zoologist (1864, p. 9038). Prof. Newton characterised this record as worthless. 
2 Since this work has been in the press Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has shown, by an explanation of the above-mentioned characters, that 
the bird in question is only a specimen of the Golden-Eye {Bull. B. O. C, vol. xxxi., November 29, 1912). 
