BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 253 



Included in the list given in " The Naturalist in Bermuda," but with 

 no information appended. It has been occasionally seen, but rarely 

 obtained, in the islands. It was obesrved on three occasions during my 

 stay, one being seen on Peniston's Pond in the autumn of 1874, one in 

 the Great Sound on the 10th January, 1875, by the officers of the Fifty - 

 third Eegiment as they were leaving the islands on their homeward 

 journey, and a third near Daniel's Head by Lieutenants Denison and 

 Hussey, Eoyal Engineers, early in February, 1875. A man of colour 

 was seen by these two officers to fire at the last-named bird; but he 

 stupidly let drive at it, with small shot too, at a hundred and twenty 

 yards, instead of paddling much nearer to it, as he might have done» 

 A wild Gi)ose, weighing ten pounds when plucked, was shot in South- 

 ampton parish on the 7th January, 1875, and eaten forthwith by the 

 fortunate gunner or his friends. This undoubtedly belonged to the 

 present species, but cannot be definitely recorded. 



Sub-family ANATINiE. 



Genus Anas, Linn. 



142. Anas boschas, Linn. Mallard. 



Anas boschas, Linn., Gm., Lath., Pall., Wila., Boie, Lecht., Bp.,Temm., Vig., 



Aud., Schl., and authors generally. 

 Anas adunca, Linn., Gm., Jen., Donovan. 

 Anas domestica, Gm. 



Anas (Boschas) domestica, Sw. & Rich., Nutt. 

 Anas curvirostra, Pall. 

 Anas freycineti, Bp. 

 Anas f era, Briss., Leach. 



Length, 23 ; wing, 11 ; tarsus, 1.70. 



Sab. — ^Nearly cosmopolitan; wild throughout the whole of North 

 America; breeding sparingly in United States as well as further north. 

 Greenland, Cuba, Bahamas, Panama. (Coues.) 



A female was shot by an officer of the Fifty-sixth Regiment at War- 

 wick Pond on November 3, 1854. It was in company with some tame 

 ducks, always taking the wing moment any one approached the water 

 (Nat. in B., p. 48). Four— a Mallard and three ducks— were observed 

 in the Great Sound by Lieutenant Hussey, Eoyal Engineers, on the 23d 

 December, 1874. 



143. Anas ohscura, Gm. Black Duck ; Dusky Duck. 



Anas ohscura, Gm., Lath., Wils., Vieil., Steph., Bp., Nutt., Gray, Aud., Eyt., 

 Gir., Cab., Bd., Coues, Schl., Lawr., and all authors. 



Length, 22 ; wing, nearly 12 ; tarsus, 1.80. 



