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* Tadorna tadorna (Linnaeus). Sheld-Duck. [141.2.] 



Anas Tadorna Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 122. (in Europae 

 maritimis = Sweden.) 

 Range. — Breeds in northern Europe and the British Isles south to France 

 and Spain; also in Siberia and central Asia. Migrates to North Africa, India, 

 China, and Japan. Casual in Iceland and the Faroes; accidental in Massa- 

 chusetts (Ipswich Bay, October 15, 1921). ^ 



Genus CASARCA Bonaparte. 



Casarca Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 56. Type, by mono- 

 typy. Anas ruiila Pallas = Anas ferruginea Pallas. 



• Casarca ferruginea (Pallas). Ruddy Sheldrake. [141.1.] 



Anas (ferruginea) Pallas, in Vroeg, Catal., 1764, Adumbr., 5. (No local- 

 ity given = Tartary.) 

 Range. — Breeds in temperate Europe and in Asia, from Siberia south to 

 Mongolia, Turkestan, the Caspian and Black seas, Tibet, China, and in north- 

 ern Africa. Winters in the eastern Mediterranean countries, Egypt, India, 

 Arabia, Cejdon, and China; casually north to Japan. Casual or irregular in 

 the British Isles, the Faroes, and Iceland; and accidental in Greenland (Angs- 

 palartok Dist., Upernavik, 1892,^ and North Greenland ^}, New Jersey (Bar- 

 negat Bay, November 14, 1916),^ and North Carolina (Waterlily, 1886).* 



Genus ANAS Linnaeus. 



Anas Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 122. Type, by subs, desig.. 

 Anas boschas Linnaeus = A. platyrhynchos Linnaeus (Lesson, 1828). 



Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos Linnaeus. Common Mallard. [132.] 



A7ias platyrhynchos Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 125. (in 

 Europae maritimis = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Aleutian and Pribilof islands, northwestern 

 Alaska, northern Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, west coast of Hudson Bay 

 (reported from Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) south to northern 

 Lower California, southern New Mexico, southern Texas, southern Kansas, cen- 

 tral Missom-i, southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, southern Ohio, and 

 northern Virginia; breeds also in Iceland, through Europe south of the Arctic 



1 Forbush, Auk, XXXIX, 1922, 104. 



2 Vanhoflfen, Verhandl. Ges. fur Erdkunde, Berlin, 1893, 460. 



' Winge, Vidensk. Meddel. Naturh. Foren Kjobenhaven, 1895, 63. 

 4 G. B. Grinnell, Auk, XXXVI, 1919, 561. 



