and amongst flooded willows along Sister Creek. Several stood on
logs dressing their plumage while others dived for food. No females
were observed. Two males and a female visited Bouchie Lake on June
5 and on the two successive days following. A population on Milburn
Leke, June 10, consisted of a mated pair and four males.

The first downy young, a brood of four not accompanied by a
female, were recorded at Swamp Lake on July 5. A brood of six half
grown young on Tiltzarone Lake, also unattended on August 31, was
probably the product of an unusually late nesting. The average
number of young in six broods, counted between July 5 and August 31,
was 9.6.

At Nukko Lake on July 7 a female and six downy young when first
seen were at the lake edge of a horsetail marsh. The female rose,
circled over my canoe several times, then alighted on the water.
When I left the vicinity she flew to her brood that in the meantime
had swam out on the lake

The behaviour of another female and brood of eight met with
near the same place two days later was quite different. She swam
in a circle about the canoe, trailing her wings and striking them
on the water; then she swam straight ahead keeping 20 yards or so
in front of the canoe until she had reached a point 100 yards or
more beyond where the young had disappeared into the marsh; she
then turned and flew back to them.

A female at Maclure Lake, July 15, flew out from shore and
alighted on the water where she made similar demonstrations. Then
she travelled along shore in a direction opposite to that taken by
the three-quarter grown young. These followed the shore, partly
concealed by a thin growth of horsetail, for some 300 yards then
three of them, that perhaps made up the entire brood, left the
marsh and flapped over open water until well out on the lake. Here
they dived, turned about, and in a succession of long dives returned
to the shelter of the marsh.

Canvas-back, Aythya valisineria (Wilson)

At Puntchesakut Lake on May 11 three males and one female,
obviously transients, accompanied a flock of surf scoters and other
waterfowl congregated on the centre of the lake. A Single male in
partial eclipse was seen in flight at Maclure Lake on igi nyraleok
These represent the only records of the species made during the
sumer. ©. D. Muirhead reports seeing flocks up to 50 at Kathlyn
Lake, near Smithers, during spring migrations.

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