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Washington to central western Texas, northern Mexico, and Lower California, 

 east to western Montana, eastern Wyoming, and southwestern Kansas; 

 also in South America from Buenos Aires and the Andes of Peru to the 

 Falkland Islands and Straits of Magellan. Winters from central California 

 (sparingly), southern Arizona, and central New Mexico to southern Mexico, 

 Nicaragua, and Panama; also from Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru (rarely 

 Ecuador and Colombia) to central Patagonia and Chiloe Island. Casual in 

 Alberta, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. 



Genus SPATULA Boie. 



Spatula BoiB, Isis von Oken, [X] 1822, Heft v (May), col. 564. Type, 

 by monotypy, A7ias clypeata Linnaeus. 



Spatula clypeata (Linnaeus). Shoveller. [142.] 



Anas clypeata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 124. (in Europse 

 maritimis = southern Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Bering Sea coast of Alaska irregularly east to 

 Great Slave Lake and the valley of the Saskatchewan, south to western 

 Iowa, western Nebraska, Kansas, northwestern New Mexico, central Arizona, 

 and southern California, formerly or occasionally to western New York, 

 Indiana, Illinois, and Texas; also from the Arctic Circle to southern Europe and 

 central Asia, and from Great Britain to Kamchatka and the Commander 

 Islands. Winters from southern British Columbia, the coast of California, 

 Arizona, New Mexico, eastern Texas, the lower Mississippi Valley, and the At- 

 lantic coast from South Carolina south to the West Indies, the Pacific coast of 

 Mexico and Central America, Colombia, and the Hawaiian Islands; rarely 

 north to Minnesota, Illinois, New Jersey, and Virginia; and casually along the 

 Atlantic coast to Maine and Lal^rador; in the Old World winters south to 

 northern Africa, India, China, the Philippines, and Australia. Accidental in 

 Bermuda. 



Genus AIX Boie. 



Aix Boie, Isis von Oken, XXI, 1828, Heft iii-iv (March- April), col. 329. 

 Type, by subs, desig.. Anas sponsa Linnaeus (Eyton, 1838). 



Aix sponsa (Linnaeus). Wood Duck. [144.] 



Anas Sponsa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 128. Based mainly 

 on The Summer Duck, Anas americana Catesby, Carolina, I, 97. (in 

 America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds locally in almost every one of the United States and 

 southern Canadian provinces, from southern British Columbia, northwestern 

 Montana, southern Manitoba, and southern Ontario southward; rarely farther 

 north. Winters from southern British Columbia, central Missouri, southern 

 Illinois, and southern Virginia to Jamaica and central Mexico, rarely north 

 to Michigan and Massachusetts. Casual in Bermuda. 

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