LABRADOR DUOK. 65 
mountainous region of western North America south to southwestern 
Colorado and to central California at about latitude 88 , 
Winter range. The harlequin is not rareal this season in the south- 
ern part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and thence is less common to 
Long [sland Sound; it is accidental on the New Jersey coast, and once, 
March 20, L886, has been noted at Pensacola, Fla. It is not uncom- 
mon in winter on Lake Michigan; an accidental was noted October 29 
Dear St. Louis. It winters in Colorado at the southern limit of its 
breeding range but at several thousand feet Lower altitude. On the 
Pacific coast it winters abundantly in the Aleutians and the Pribilof 
Islands; west to the Near Islands, the Commander islands, and rarely 
to Japan; also along the coast of California to Monterey and in the 
interior to about 36 latitude (near Crockers Station). Accidental in 
Europe. 
Spring migration. -The few individuals that winter on the Atlantic 
coast of the United States retire northward in January and early Feb- 
ruary, hut some linger just south of the breeding grounds in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence until late May. The species arrives on the coast of 
Greenland in March. On the Pacific coast the winter and breeding 
ranges so overlap that no regular progression northward can be dis- 
tinguished. Migratory movements are noticeable on the coast of 
Oregon the last of March; the species was noted at Fort Simpson, 
Mackenzie, May 25, l!><)4: the van usually arrives ;it the mouth of the 
Yukon about the 1st of June. 
luill migration.- -The first arrivals off the coast of Massachusetts do 
not appear until about the beginning of November, when the last are 
leaving the Greenland breeding grounds. The first arrivals have been 
noted at Toronto, Ontario, October !?<>, 1894, and at Omaha, Nebr. 
(accidental). September !<*,. ls<>8; September 15), 1895. 
Camptolaimus labradorius (Gmel.). Labrador Duck. 
This is an extinct species, which within the last century nested from 
Labrador northward. During the winter it visited the coast of New 
England and passed as tar south as Long Island and New Jersey, pos- 
sibly to Chesapeake Bay. So far as known the last survivor was 
captured in L871 at Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Forty-three 
specimens arc known to he in museums. 
Polysticta stelleri (rail.). Steller Eider. 
Breeding ranr/c. — The principal summer home of this duck is along 
the northern coast of Siberia, where the species Is enormously abun- 
dant. Thence it breeds on (he eastern coast and islands south to the 
Near Islands, Unalaska, and the Sbumagins. Eggs have been found 
at Unalaska May L8, in northern Siberia June 25, and downy young at 
Point Harrow, Alaska, duly 28. 
