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This form is here identified certainly for the first time in a fossil state, 

 the only previous records being open to question. Shufeldt ^ has re- 

 corded it uncertainly from the Pleistocene of Fossil Lake, Oregon, 

 listing- it in his final table with a query .^ 



ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS Linnaeus 



Mallard 

 .'hias phityrliyiiclios Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 125. 



Two humeri of the mallard, strong and robust bones, were collected 

 in the Itchtucknee River deposits in Columbia County by Mr. and 

 Mrs. li. H. Simpson. 



Remains of other ducks of the mallard type from the Seminole 

 Field, collected by W. W. Holmes, include parts of humeri, an ulna, 

 a metacarpal, and parts of several coracoids, all in such fragmentary 

 form that it is not expedient to attempt to identify them specifically. 

 Parts of two humeri of similar status were obtained by J. E. Moore 

 near Venice. Probably the black duck and mallard are both repre- 

 sented. 



The mallard is a regular migrant to Florida. 



ANAS RUBRIPES Brewster 

 Black duck 

 Alias obsciira rub?-ipcs Brewster, Auk, 1902, p. 184. 



Collections from the Itchtucknee River, Columbia County, made by 

 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Simpson, include a humerus and a metatarsus of 

 this species, which has not been recorded previously as a fossil. 



Like the mallard the black duck comes regularly to winter in Florida. 



ANAS FULVIGULA Ridgway 



Florida duck 



Aiias obsntra var. jul^'igida Ridgway, Amer. Nat., vol. 8, February, 1874, 

 p. III. 



A metacarpal and the proximal and distal ends of two humeri are 

 equal in size to a female of this species and are identified as this bird. 

 These specimens come from the Holmes collection from the Seminole 

 Field. In material obtained by J. E. Moore at pjradenton there is part 

 of another humerus. 



* Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, July 0, 1913, PP- 147, 156, pi. 2>2>, fig- 

 414. 



■ See also ShufokU, Auk, 1913, p. 39, and Science, vol. 37, February 21, 1913, 

 p. 307, where this same record is given as Branla canadensis Jintchinsi (?). 



