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region, with a still less distinct dusky mark extending back from 

 this to the nape " (B., B., Sf R.). 



This species, in Mr. Kidgway's Key, comes in the section in which 

 the wings are without white bands ; but in two of the specimens 

 mentioned below, one from New Brunswick and the other from the 

 Bermuda Islands, there is a distinct narrow white band at the tip 

 of the secondaries. 



Hah. Eastern North America, breeding from more northern 

 United States to Hudson's Bay and Labrador; western and southern 

 limits imperfectly determined ; Bermudas. 



a. Pull. St. No locality. 



b. Ad. St. N. America. Purchased. 



0. Ad. St. N. America. J. J. Audubon, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. New Brunswick, Sept. Capt. S. G. Reid [P.l. 



e. Ad. sk. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Capt. S. G. Reid [P.]. 



f. (S ad. sk. New Haven, Connecticut, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(C. A. Merrimn). 



g. (S ad. sk. Peniston'sPond, Bermudas, Jan. Capt. S. G. Reid [P.]. 

 h, i. Skeletons. 



6. Anas fulvigula. 



Anas obscura, part., Aud. Oim. Biogr. iv. p. 15 (1838) ; id. B. Am. 

 vi. p. 244 (1843) ; ? Gosse, B. Jam. p. 408 (1847) ; ? Gundl. (nee 

 Gm.) J.f. 0. 1857, p. 229 (Cuba) ; March, Pr. Ac. Philnd. 1864, 

 p. 72 (Jamaica) ; ? Coites, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xii. p. 724 (South 

 Carolina, in winter) (1868) ; ? Allen, Bull. Mus. Co7>ip. Zool. ii. 

 p. 363 (Florida) (1871); ? A. ^- E. Newt. Handh. Jam. p. 113 

 (1881) ; ? Cory, Rev. List B. W. Ind. p. 30 (1886) ; id. Auk, 1888, 

 p. 61 (Cuba, Jamaica) ; ? id. B. W. Ind. p. 262 (1889). 



Anas obscura, var. fulvigula, Ridgiv. Am. Nat. viii. p. Ill (Florida) 

 (1874) ; Coues, Check-list, App. n. 489 « (1874). 



Anas obscura, h. fulvinula, Coues, B. N.-West, p. 561 (1874). 



Anas fulvigula, liidi/w- Br. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 251 (1878), iii. 

 p. 203, n. 603 (18W_)) ; id. Norn. N. Am. B. n. 603 (1881); B., B., 

 ^ R. Water-B. N. Am. i. p. 503 (1884) ; ? Cory, List B. W. Ind. 

 p. 30 (1885) ; Ridgiv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 173 (1886) ; 

 A. O. tl. Check-list N. Am. B. p. 115, n. 115 (1886) ; Ridgw. 

 Man. N. Am. B. p. 92 (1887) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Am. B. 

 (abridg. ed.) p. 14, n. 134 (1889) ; Cory, Auk, 1890, p. 204 (eggs) ; 

 ? Breiost. ^- Chapm. Auk, 1891, p. 137 (Suwanee River) ; Scott, 

 Auk, 1892, p. 211 (Florida). 



Anas obscura fulvigula, Coues, Check-list, 2nd ed. p. 113, n. 709 

 (1882) ; id. Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 692, n. 709 (1884). 



Similar to A. obscura but much paler ; cheeks and throat plain 

 buff ; ochraceous or buff markings predominating in extent over the 

 darker markings ; lower basal angle of upper mandible with a 

 triangular black spot ; speculum usually bluish green ; about the 

 size of A. obscura. (Bidgtvay.) 



According to Eidgway's Key, this species ought to have no white 

 bands on the wings, but. the only typical bird in the Museum and 

 others in Mr. Rothschild's collection have a distinct narrow white 

 band at the tip of the secondaries. 



