54 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Charitonetta albeola (Linnaeus). Buffle-head. [153.] 



Anas Albeola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 124. Based on the 

 Little Black and White Duck Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 100. (in 

 America = Newfoundland.) 



Range. — Breeds from British Columbia, southern Yukon Territory, west- 

 central Alaska, northern Mackenzie, Great Slave Lake and southwestern coasts 

 of Hudson and James bays to northern Montana; reported as breeding formerly 

 in Maine, New Brunswick, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Wyoming, and recently at 

 lakes in northeastern California. Winters from the Aleutian and Commander 

 islands and the Alaska Peninsula south to central Mexico and Lower California, 

 and from northwestern Montana, Great Lakes, and the coast of Maine to South 

 Carolina, northern Florida, and the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Texas. Casual 

 in Greenland, Bermuda, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands. 



Genus CLANGULA Leach. 



Clangula Leach, in Ross, Voyage Discovery, 1819, App., xlviii. Type, by 

 monotypy, Clangula glacialis = A nas hyemalis Linnaeus. 



Clangula hyemalis (Linnaeus). Old-squaw. [154.] 



Anas hyemalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. (in Europa et 

 America arctica = Northern provinces of Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Arctic coasts of both hemispheres south to the 

 Straits of Belle Isle and Southampton Island, down the eastern and western 

 shores of Hudson Bay to Cape Jones and Churchill, west over the barren 

 grounds of Canada and Alaska to southern Yukon Territory, and down the 

 coasts of Bering Sea to the Aleutian and Commander islands and British 

 Columbia (White Pass); also over the barren grounds of Asia and Europe, 

 the Faroes, Iceland, and both coasts of Greenland. Winters on the Atlantic 

 coast south to Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina (rarely Georgia and 

 Florida), on the Pacific from the Aleutian Islands to Washington, less fre- 

 quently to southern California, and in the interior on the Great Lakes and 

 irregularly elsewhere to Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado, and Texas. Winters 

 in the Old World south to the Black and Caspian seas, and less frequently to 

 the Mediterranean; also to Lake Baikal, Japan, and China. Casual in the 

 Azores and Madeira. 



Genus HISTRIONICUS Lesson. 



Histrionicus Lesson, Manuel d'Orn., II, 1828, 415. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Anas histrionica Linnaeus. 



Histrionicus histrionicus histrionicus (Linnaeus). Eastern Harlequin Duck. 



[155.] 



Anas histrionica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 127. Based on 

 The Dusky and Spotted Duck Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 99. (in 

 America = Newfoundland.) 



