White-winged Scoter--Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus).

The presence of this species on Puntchesakut Lake in company
with surf scoters is referred to earlier. The precise dates ob-
served and numbers recorded are: May 11, 25 males, 5 females;
May 2s, “cot; May 2h ses Mayyco. 1:

At Maclure Lake on July 15 three males and two females were
with a flock of 34 surf scoters on the centre of the lake. One
of the female white-winged scoters was flightless, and the males
probably were renewing the flight feathers as they seemed to ex-
perience considerable difficulty in taking flight.

A female on Keefe Lake, August 4, was accompanied by one
young judged to be about three weeks old. It was observed on
August 8 that the young bird had disappeared and that the female
consorted with a brood of Barrow golden-eye. On August 9 a
second female white-winged scoter appeared on the lake and was
seen there again on August 12. Both times the two females were
in company. .

At Tiltzarone Lake, September 3, I paddled within 30 yards of a
female and brood of nine about one-quarter grown. The remale
appeared unconcerned, even when approached a second time, and
neither left the brood nor made any demonstration.

These records represent a considerable northern extension
of the species known nesting range in British Columbia.

Surf Scoter--Melanitta perspicillata (Linnaeus).

A migration of surf scoters at Puntchesakut Lake has been
referred to, The dates observed and numbers counted are: May 6,
May 7, 30+; May 8, May 9, 25+; May ll, 60 males, 18 females;

May 16 - 20+; May 20, none; May el, 28; May 23, 100+; May 26,
55+; May 27, 26. The last record is for May 28 when two males
were seen feeding close inshore.

Other spring records in the Baker Creek Valley are: two
males on Quanstrom Lake, May 7; a flock of 10 on Puntataenkut
Lake, May 20; a total of 20 on Tiltzarone Lake, May 6, and nine
males and two females at the same place on May 16. Surf scoters
were again observed on this lake when it was next visited August
51. On this date, four and on September 1, five, all females,
were counted.

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