480 



ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



FULIGULA FERINA (Linn.), var. AMERICANA, (Eyton). 



Redhead. 



Fulifiula americana, EYTON, Mouog. Anat., 1838, 155. 



Nyroca ferina, WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1854, 104. 



Aytliya ferina var. americana, ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zob'l., iii, 1872, 183 (Great Salt 

 Lake). 



Fuligula ferina var. amcricana, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 289. YARROW & HEN- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Expetl., 1874, 32. HENSHAW, 

 Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Expetl., 1874, CO. COUES, Birds North- 

 west, 1874, 575. 



Aytliya erythrocephala, NEWB., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 103. 



Nyroca erythrocepliala, HEERM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 70. 



Aythya amcricana, BD., P. R. R. Rep., Beckwith's Route, x, 1859, 16. Id., Birds N. A., 

 1858, 793. Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 27. 

 XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 193 (Fort Tejon, Cal.). SNOW, 

 Birds Kan., 1872, 15. 



We procured a number of the Redheads about Utah Lake, where 

 individuals of the species were not numerous in November. As will be seen 

 by the above quotations, this duck is of very general occurrence through 

 the West, reaching to the Pacific coast, where Newberry gives it as common 

 about San Francisco. 



BUCEPHALA CLANGULA (Linn.). 

 Golden Eye. 



Anas clangula, LINN., Syst. Nat,, i, 1766, 201. 



Rucephala clangula, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 290. YARROW & HENSHAW, Rep. 



Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 32. COUES, Birds Northwest, 



1874, 576. 



Clangula americana, NEWB., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 504. 

 Bucephala americana, BD., P. R. R. Rep., Beckwith's Route, 1859, 16. Id., Birds N. A., 



1858, 796. COOP. & SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 259. SNOW, 



Birds Kan., 1872, 15. 



The common Golden Eye visits the neighborhood of Utah Lake in great 

 abundance during the fall, and is, I think, a winter resident. Upon leaving 



