ORDER ANSERIFORMES. 35 



Suborder PHOENICOPTERI. Flamingos. 



Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE. . Flamingos. 



Genus PHOENICOPTERUS Linnaeus. 



Phoenicopterus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 139. Type, by 

 monotypy, Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus. 



Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus. Flamingo. [182.] 



Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 139. Based 

 largely on The Flamingo, Phoenicopterus bahamensis Catesby, Carolina, 

 I, 73. (in Africa, America, rarius in Europa = Cuba.) 



Range. — -Atlantic coast of subtropical and tropical America. Breeds locally 

 in the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Yucatan, Guiana, and Peru; formerly a regular 

 visitor near the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula; now of casual occurrence 

 on the Florida coast. Winters mainly in the same region. Said to have been 

 found on the coast of South Carolina.^ 



Order ANSERIFORMES. Screamers, Swans, 

 Geese, and Ducks. 



Suborder ANSERES. Swans, Geese, Ducks, 

 and Allies. 



Family ANATIDAE. Swans, Geese, and Ducks. 

 Subfamily CYGNINAE. Swans. 



Genus STHENELIDES Stejneger. 



Sthenelides Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., IV, 1885, 143. Type, by 

 monotypy, Anas melancorypha Molina. 



•• Sthenelides olor (Gmelin). Mute Swan. [178.2.] 



Anas olor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 502. (in Russia, Siberia, 

 Persico etiam littore maris caspii = Russia.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern and southeastern Europe to Turkestan, 

 Mongolia, Persia, and eastern Siberia. Winters south to northern Africa, the 

 Black Sea, and northwestern India. Introduced and naturalized in the British 

 Isles and in New York (lower Hudson Valley and south shore of Long Island), 

 straying casually to the coast of New Jersey. 



1 Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 256. 



