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B I R D S O F N O R T H E R N C A N A DA 307
was shot near Cumberland House. This duck undoubtedly
breeds at both places and also along the lower Saskatchewan
R i v e r ; but it is not common i n the northern portion of the
Canadian continent, especially i n the Anderson region of
A r c t i c America, where we found it very rare, as but two
examples, minus eggs, were obtained during our five seasons'
residence at Fort Anderson.
Mr. Ross claims that he secured its eggs i n 1S61.
Professor Macoun also states that on 9th June, 1894,
while beating rose thickets for nests, he flushed a female off
her nest, containing ten eggs, too much incubated to be taken.
Shortly after he flushed another, but there were only eight
eggs i n the set, quite fresh. Both nests were under rose
bushes on dry ground, and lined with grass and down. Two
days later he found two more nests i n a similar position, one
having eleven and the other nine eggs. The Museum at the
Capital holds eight specimens and several sets of eggs.
143. PIXTAIL— D a f i l a acuta ( L i n n . ).
Two skins of this abundant and widely distributed
species were obtained from Fond du Lac, Athabasca, where
it breeds, and they were sent to D r . B e l l . Its eggs not being
considered as desiderata at Washington, no effort was made
by us to secure any in Athabasca, New Caledonia, or Cumberland.
We found this duck very numerous i n the Anderson
River country, as well as on the coast shores of Liverpool
and F r a n k l i n bays, A similar remark would prove equally
applicable to the eggs of several species of duck, and also
to a number of other well- known land and water birds of
North America.
I t may be of some little interest to report that the nest
is usually a small cavity or depression in the ground, lined
with down, withered leaves, and a few feathers, and that it
lays from six to eight eggs, which are larger than those of
the shoveller. The nest is generally i n the neighbourhood of
a land- locked sheet of water. The parents desert their nests
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| OCR | B I R D S O F N O R T H E R N C A N A DA 307 was shot near Cumberland House. This duck undoubtedly breeds at both places and also along the lower Saskatchewan R i v e r ; but it is not common i n the northern portion of the Canadian continent, especially i n the Anderson region of A r c t i c America, where we found it very rare, as but two examples, minus eggs, were obtained during our five seasons' residence at Fort Anderson. Mr. Ross claims that he secured its eggs i n 1S61. Professor Macoun also states that on 9th June, 1894, while beating rose thickets for nests, he flushed a female off her nest, containing ten eggs, too much incubated to be taken. Shortly after he flushed another, but there were only eight eggs i n the set, quite fresh. Both nests were under rose bushes on dry ground, and lined with grass and down. Two days later he found two more nests i n a similar position, one having eleven and the other nine eggs. The Museum at the Capital holds eight specimens and several sets of eggs. 143. PIXTAIL— D a f i l a acuta ( L i n n . ). Two skins of this abundant and widely distributed species were obtained from Fond du Lac, Athabasca, where it breeds, and they were sent to D r . B e l l . Its eggs not being considered as desiderata at Washington, no effort was made by us to secure any in Athabasca, New Caledonia, or Cumberland. We found this duck very numerous i n the Anderson River country, as well as on the coast shores of Liverpool and F r a n k l i n bays, A similar remark would prove equally applicable to the eggs of several species of duck, and also to a number of other well- known land and water birds of North America. I t may be of some little interest to report that the nest is usually a small cavity or depression in the ground, lined with down, withered leaves, and a few feathers, and that it lays from six to eight eggs, which are larger than those of the shoveller. The nest is generally i n the neighbourhood of a land- locked sheet of water. The parents desert their nests |
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