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Charitonetta albeola (Linnaeus). Buffle-head 
This beautiful little duck was in all waters where the Barrow’s Golden- 
eye was seen, but in lesser numbers, and it outlasted the other, and appeared 
at Cordova, Alaska, March 15, when three high-plumaged males were seen, 
and also at Adak island, April 11, when fully thirty-five were in the small 
lagoon at the head of Kuluk bay. This duck was not seen during the 
return. 
Clangula hyemalis (Linnaeus). Old-squaw 
A single Old-squaw was seen February 28 near Victoria, B.C.; then 
from Bellabella, B.C., where on March 3 many were met in the channel, 
until May 7, when the Thiepval turned into the bay at Hitokappu in the 
southern Kurils, this duck was never absent in any harbour or semi-pro- 
tected water. There were a few even in the open bay at Oest, Kamchatka, 
April 26 — a wind-swept, cheerless place. It was the duck seen in most 
numbers on the spring voyage. Sometimes only a single bird was seen 
during the day’s travel or a day’s observations in harbour; on the other 
hand, as many as two hundred might be counted, as at Dolgoi bay, March 
23, and Kashawabara bay, Paramushir island, May 1. It was not noted 
during the few hours stay at Copper island, but appeared again at Bering 
island. It was not seen during the return. 
9 Taku, Alaska. March 9 
6 Cordova, Alaska. March 15. Winter plumage. 
9 Bering island. April 25 
6 Kodiak island, Alaska. March 21. Winter plumage. 
Histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus). Harlequin Duck 
Appeared first near Bellabella, B.C., March 3, when a flock of four, 
two males and two females, flew from the rocks in a narrow channel, and 
it was not met again until a dozen were found in Dolgoi bay, March 18. 
Two were noted at Uyak bay, Kodiak island, March 21, twenty at Chignik 
bay, March 22, and the largest numbers of the entire voyage came on 
March 26 at Unalaska. In a few hours circuit by power dory off the island 
guarding the harbour at Unalaska, fully five hundred of these beautiful 
ducks were routed from the rocks and from the water close to the shore. 
A few were seen at Adak island, and they were numerous at Attu island, 
April 20. It was not noted at Copper island, but at Nikolski, Bering 
island, April 25, it was in the bay near the village and keeping company 
with some eiders and Aleutian Sandpipers out on the surf-hammered rocks 
of Toporkov island. It was last seen on the outgoing voyage at Para- 
mushir island, in the Kurils, where, on May 1, two were noted. 
On the morning of April 21, at Attu island, near some high, 
rocky ledges close to the water’s edge, a Harlequin female suddenly 
appeared close to the shore and behaved in a rather unusual manner. She 
swam back and forth, bobbed, and turned her head, and seemed to show 
in every action her keen interest in the writer. She behaved exactly like 
a bird with a nest in these rocks. At the same time there was a session of 
ardent courting going on among a small flock of Harlequins on the bay 
not far distant. 
On July 13, on the return voyage, a dozen males, all adults in good 
feather, were noted at Broughton bay, Paramushir island. Undoubtedly 
