Catalogue of British Columbia Birds

by Francis Kermode

HARELDA Stephens.

69. Long-tailed Duck. Old Squaw.

Harelda hyemalis (Linn.).

Common; the coasts of Vancouver Island and Mainland. Brooks has taken it at Chilliwhack. Rev. J. H. Keen reports it common at Metlakatla.

HISTRIONICUS Lesson.

70. Harlequin Duck.

Histrionicus histrionicus (Linn.).

A common resident on the coast. I found it breeding at Bear River, Vancouver Island, May, 1894. Brooks has taken it at Chilliwhack. Rare at Queen Charlotte Islands. (Rev. J. H. Keen.)

OIDEMIA Fleming.

71. American Black Scoter.