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316 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
and while the females annually observed by us greatly predominated
in numbers, the males were exceedingly wary
and kept well beyond gunfire. The Ottawa Museum contains
but one skin, procured at York Factory, Hudson Bay,
by Dr. Bell, and seven eggs taken in Hudson Strait and in
Labrador, in 1SS5 and in 1897!
163. A M E R I C A N SCOTER— O i d e t n i a americana ( Swains, and
Rich.).
Two males and one female of this species were procured
by the late Mr. James Flett, the manager of Fort Resolution,
Great Slave Lake, two of them from Fond du Lac, and
the other was shot at the post in the spring of 1885, and the
skins of both sets were duly forwarded to Dr. R. Bell. On
the 28th May, 1891, Mr. Joseph Hourston, the clerk in
charge of Lac du Brochet post, at the north end of Reindeer
Lake, Cumberland District, also shot a bird, and while this
scoter is not particularly abundant in that region at any
period of the season, it probably breeds in the country to
the northward of that large body of fresh water. We have
much reason, however, to assume that it bred annually in
the Anderson River District, where it had been occasionally
seen by the natives. On June 17th Mr. Dall found a nest
at the mouth of the Yukon, in a bunch of willows on a small
island, with two white and rather large eggs. Was well lined
with grass, leaves, moss, and feathers. Ottawa Museum
has two skins, but no eggs, of this duck!
165. W H I T E - W I N G E D SCOTER— O i d e m i a deglandi ( Bonap.).
A couple of skins of the velvet duck, received from Mr.
Hourston, of Lac du Brochet, Reindeer Lake, were forwarded
to Dr. Bell in 1886. This species, in all probability, breeds
in the northern section of Cumberland, as well as in the
Districts of Athabasca, New Caledonia, and British Columbia.
It also breeds in large numbers throughout the Arctic
region, as several nests were found in the " Barrens," some
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| OCR | 316 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN and while the females annually observed by us greatly predominated in numbers, the males were exceedingly wary and kept well beyond gunfire. The Ottawa Museum contains but one skin, procured at York Factory, Hudson Bay, by Dr. Bell, and seven eggs taken in Hudson Strait and in Labrador, in 1SS5 and in 1897! 163. A M E R I C A N SCOTER— O i d e t n i a americana ( Swains, and Rich.). Two males and one female of this species were procured by the late Mr. James Flett, the manager of Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake, two of them from Fond du Lac, and the other was shot at the post in the spring of 1885, and the skins of both sets were duly forwarded to Dr. R. Bell. On the 28th May, 1891, Mr. Joseph Hourston, the clerk in charge of Lac du Brochet post, at the north end of Reindeer Lake, Cumberland District, also shot a bird, and while this scoter is not particularly abundant in that region at any period of the season, it probably breeds in the country to the northward of that large body of fresh water. We have much reason, however, to assume that it bred annually in the Anderson River District, where it had been occasionally seen by the natives. On June 17th Mr. Dall found a nest at the mouth of the Yukon, in a bunch of willows on a small island, with two white and rather large eggs. Was well lined with grass, leaves, moss, and feathers. Ottawa Museum has two skins, but no eggs, of this duck! 165. W H I T E - W I N G E D SCOTER— O i d e m i a deglandi ( Bonap.). A couple of skins of the velvet duck, received from Mr. Hourston, of Lac du Brochet, Reindeer Lake, were forwarded to Dr. Bell in 1886. This species, in all probability, breeds in the northern section of Cumberland, as well as in the Districts of Athabasca, New Caledonia, and British Columbia. It also breeds in large numbers throughout the Arctic region, as several nests were found in the " Barrens," some |
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