. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America ... . ou/ig.—A brown band from the ears to the hindneck, and one down the back of the neck. Occiput traversed bya white band, and one also across the wing. L^pper parts, gray-ish brown; under parts, ■A ^ \ ^^^^ RUDDY SHELDRAKE. TF it was stretching a point to admit the Smew amongNorth American birds, when two females, it wasclaimed, had been taken in the flesh within ourboundaries, what is to be said of this speciesapplication for membership in our avi-fauna, based
. The wild fowl of the United States and British possessions : or, The swan, geese, ducks, and mergansers of North America ... . ou/ig.—A brown band from the ears to the hindneck, and one down the back of the neck. Occiput traversed bya white band, and one also across the wing. L^pper parts, gray-ish brown; under parts, ■A ^ \ ^^^^ RUDDY SHELDRAKE. TF it was stretching a point to admit the Smew amongNorth American birds, when two females, it wasclaimed, had been taken in the flesh within ourboundaries, what is to be said of this speciesapplication for membership in our avi-fauna, basedas it is upon two statements, one, that Dr. Van-hoffen, a member of an expedition to West Green-land sent by the Geographical Society of Berlin,reported that he saw a skin of this species in acollection of birds at Augpalartok in the District ofUppernavik, that was collected in that vicinity in 1892;and the other that, in 1895, Wenge of Copenhagen re-ports another specimen from North Greenland? Theseare the solitary instances of this birds occurrence any-where within what may be termed the limits of NorthAmerica, which have been recorded. Doubtless Old-World species that breed in very high latitudes some-times on the return journey go slightly astray from theirregular course, and touch, possibly for a few brief mo-men
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