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203. Fuligula vallisnefia. Canvas-back. — Rare fall migrant. 
BxsIA, N,0.0« 7 t Qot, 1882, P.257' 
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Aythya vallisneria, Canvas-back. — During the first week of Decem- 
ber, 1897, Canvas-back Ducks began to appear in couples and small 
flocks and by the middle of January the local sportsmen estimated that 
there were about 200 flocked in this end of the lake (Kevka). However, 
a week’s despicable night shooting soon drove them away. Old spoits- 
men inform me that these were the first Canvas-backs that they had seen 
in about fifteen years. 
Notes concerning certain Birds 
of Long Island, N.Y. 
Aythya vallisneria. The Canvas-back is sufficiently rare on Long 
Island to be worthy of record. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that 
the not infrequent reports of large flocks of Canvas-backs on Long 
Island sent from gunning resorts to the daily press, with the evident 
desire of attracting the city sportsmen thither, may safely be set down 
to the presence of its near relative, the Red-head. I have never interro- 
gated a reliable Long Island gunner, bayman or guide, who had ever 
observed a flock of any considerable number of Canvas-backs on Long 
Island. Abundant as this bird is on the Chesapeake, its rarity on Long 
Island is very firmly established. Mr. Andrew Chichester, a veteran 
gunner of Amityville, sent me a pair ($ and ?) of fine, fresh birds shot 
by his son Arthur at that place, March, 1903. 
William C.Braislin 
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