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to southern British Columbia; formerly bred or recorded in summer in Michi- 

 gan, northern Ohio, southern Wisconsin, and southeastern Colorado. Winters 

 from southern British Columbia south along the Pacific coast of Mexico and 

 both coasts of Central America to Panama, and from northeastern Colorado, 

 northeastern Arkansas, southern Illinois, New Jersey, and Chesapeake Bay 

 to the Bahamas and Lesser Antilles, and occasionally north to Massachusetts. 

 Casual in Bermuda, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Greenland. 



Subgenus FULIGULA Stephens. 



Fuligula Stephens, in Sh.aw, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 187. 

 Type, by tautonymy, Fuligula cristata auct. = Anas fuligula Linnaeus. 



• Nyroca fuligula (Linnaeus) . Tufted Duck. [149.1.] 



Anas Fuligula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 128. (in Europae 

 maritimis = Sweden.) 



R.^NGE. — Breeds from the British Isles and Norway to eastern Siberia and 

 Kamchatka, from about lat. 70° to lat. 50°. Winters in southern Europe and 

 northern Africa to India, China, Japan, and Formosa. Casual in Madeira, 

 Liberia, the Seychelle, Pelew, Marianne, and Philippine islands, and Borneo; 

 also in the Kurile and Pribilof islands (St. Paul Island, May 9, 191 1),^ and 

 Greenland. 



Genus NETTA Kaup. 



Netia Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 102. Type, by 

 monotjTjy, Anas rufina Pallas. 



^Netta rufina (Pallas). Rufous-crested Duck. [145.] 



Anas rufina Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, II, 1773, 713. (in Mare Caspio 

 I'acubusque vastiosimis deserti Tartaric! = Caspian Sea.) 



Range. — Breeds from Spain, southern Germany, and southern Russia 

 to Persia, Turkestan, and northern Africa. Winters on the Mediterranean, 

 Black, and Caspian seas, and the Persian Gulf, and in India, Burma, and Cey- 

 lon. Casual in the British Isles, France, Holland, Denmark, Germany, and 

 China, and in New York (Long Island?, Feb. 2, 1872.)2 



Genus GLAUCIONETTA Stejneger. 



Glaucionetta Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 409 [Oct. 3]. 

 Type, by orig. desig.. Anas clangula Linnaeus. 



1 Evermann, Auk, 1913, 17. 



2 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 22. 



