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breeding plumage at Licking Reservoir the following April. Both are 
now in my collection. Mr. H. EH. Chubb informs me of its capture in 
Medina county, in the winter of 1880-1, and writes under date of Feb- 
ruary 7, 1881: 
‘¢ Since receiving your letter, a male was brought in alive, having been captured in a 
creek near this city [Cleveland]. A Buffalo friend tells me that they are very abundant 
on the Niagara River at times, and only yesterday a Canadian from the North shore of 
lower Lake Ontario told me of their being with them in immense numbers. They are 
frequently caught in the fisherman’s nets, becoming entangled when diving for fish.” 
Genus SOMATERIA. Leach. 
Bill narrow, compressed, tapering to the end. Feathers of the forehead running for- 
ward in a long narrow point, and of cheeks extending along the lower edge of bill, so 
that the two strips embrace between them a linear portion of the bill, one-half the length 
of culmen, and which extends back further than the lower edge of mandible. Nostrils 
beyond the middis of commissure. Nail very broad, thickened, and greatly overlapping tip 
of lower mandible. Tail short, rounded; about two-fifths the wing. 
Sub-genus Somateria. Bill with frontal processes, not feathered to the nostrils. 
SOMATHRIA SPECTABILIS (L.) Leach. 
i<ing hider. . 
Somateria spectabilis, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 370, 378; Reprint, 1861, 12, 
20; Food of Birds, etce., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 574; Reprint, 1875, 14. UE, 
Birds N. W., 1874, 581.—ALLEN, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 62. 
Anas spectabilis, LINNZUS, Fn. Suec., 39. ° 
Somateria spectabilis, Born, Isis, 1822, 564. 
Bill with broad squarish, nearly vertical frontal processes bulging angularly out of line 
with culmen. Male in breeding attire, black, including a forked chin-patch, a frontal 
band, and small space round eye; the neck and fore-parts of the body, part of inter- 
scapulars, of wing-coverts and of lining of wings, and a flank patch, white, creamy on 
the jugulum, greenish on sides of head; crown and nape fine bluish-ash. Female 
resembling that of the Common Hider, but bill different, Size of the last or rather less. 
Habitat, northern North America and Europe. Chiefly coastwise. South to New 
Jersey. In the interior to Lake Erie. 
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HisTRIONICUS TORQUATUS (L.) Bp. 
Harlequin Iuck. 
Histrionicus torquatus, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860 (1861), addenda, 480; Food 
of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 574; Reprint, 1875, 14. 
This duck was admitted tomy lists of 1861 and 1875, on what I now deem insufficient 
authority. It was then believed to be of rare occurrence on Lake Erie, but was not men- 
tioned in Mr. Winslow’s list of ducks of Northern Ohio. Several specimens are said to 
have been taken by Dr. Hoy, of Racine, Wisconsin, and Dr. Coues’ has discovered it 
breeding in Dakota. 
