. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . heGolden-eye (Chapman). Season. — Very rare winter visitor. Range. — Northern North America. Breeds from south central Alaska andnorthwestern Mackenzie to southern Oregon and southern Colorado,and from northern Ungava to central Qu
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . heGolden-eye (Chapman). Season. — Very rare winter visitor. Range. — Northern North America. Breeds from south central Alaska andnorthwestern Mackenzie to southern Oregon and southern Colorado,and from northern Ungava to central Quebec; winters from southeast-ern Alaska, central Montana, the Great Lakes and Gulf of St. Law-rence south to central California, southern Colorado, Nebraska andNew England; accidental in Europe; breeds commonly in Iceland and arare visitor to Greenland. Barrows Golden-eye is a northern bird and has prob-ably always been very rare inMassachusetts within historictimes. Mr. Boardman assertsthat it formerly bred in Maine,but although a few birds mayhave summered in that Statethere is no record of the actualdiscovery of a nest. It is some-times common in our markets,but most of the specimens pro-cured there probably came Fig. the west. The records of its occurrence here are notmany, and Brewster doubts the authenticity of some. Never-. 134 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. theless, a few evidently are authentic, and it is highly prob-able that the females and young come here in larger numbersthan the males, but are overlooked on account of their closeresemblance to those of the Whistler, as they make a similarwhistling noise with their wings in flight and are indistin-guishable from the Whistler, except by an expert. This birdseems to prefer the west or the interior of the continent toour coast. It is, or formerly was, not uncommon in north-eastern Maine, and on the St. Lawrence River in northernNew York. In the Vermont Agricultural Report published
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