ORDER ANSERIFORMES. 45 



Anas iulvigula fulvigula Ridgway. Florida Duck. [134.] 



Anas obscura var. fulvigula Ridgway, Amer. Nat., VIII, No. 2, Feb., 1874, 

 111. (Dummits, Brevard Co. = St. Johns River, Florida.) 



Range. — Southern and central Florida north at least to Alachua County and 

 along the northwestern coast. 



Anas fulvigula maculosa Sennett. Mottled Duck. [134a.] 



Anas maculosa Sennett, Auk, VI, No. 3, July, 1889, 263. (Nueces Bay, 

 near Corpus Christi, Texas.) 



Range. — -Coasts of Louisiana and Texas, less commonly inland, along the 

 Mississippi in Louisiana, and to central Texas. Casual in Colorado and 

 Kansas. 



Genus CHAULELASMUS Bonapakte. 



Chaulelasnms "G. R. Gray" Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 

 56. Type, by monotypy, Anas strepera Linnaeus. 



Chaulelasmus streperus (Linn.a.eus). Gadwall. [135.] 



Anas strepera Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 125. (in Europse 

 aquis dulcibus = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from Little Slave Lake, Lake Athabaska, and Hudson Bay 

 (northern Manitoba) to central British Columbia, interior Washington, Oregon, 

 California, Utah, southern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southwestern 

 Kansas, northern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, central Minnesota, and Ohio 

 (formerly) ; also in the British Isles and temperate Europe and Asia. Winters 

 from Chesapeake Bay, southern Illinois, northern Arkansas, northeastern 

 Colorado, and southern British Columbia to southern Florida, Jamaica, south- 

 central Mexico, and southern Lower California; also in the British Isles, 

 Mediterranean countries, northern India, China, and Japan. Accidental in 

 Bermuda and Alaska (St. Paul Island). 



Genus MARECA Stephens. 



Mareca Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 130. 

 Type, by subs, desig., Mareca fistularis Stephens = Anas penelope 

 Linnaeus (Eyton, 1838). 



Mareca penelope (Linnaeus). European Widgeon. [136.] 



Anas Penelope Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. (in Europse 

 maritimis et paludibus = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Greenland (rarely), Iceland, Scotland and outlying 

 islands, northern England, northern Europe and Asia, east to Kamchatka. 

 Winters in the British Isles, southern Europe and Asia, and northern Africa to 

 Japan; also frequent in British Columbia, California, and less so, but appar- 

 ently regular, in the upper Mississippi Valley and on the Atlantic coast (Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence to Florida). Accidental in Spitzbergen, the Azores, Canary, 

 and Marshall Islands. 



