NO. 2 AVIFAUNA OF PLEISTOCF.NE IN FLORIDA WETMORR 21 



Collections in the Florida State Geological Survey from near the 

 head of the Itchtucknee River, Columhia County, contain two entire 

 and four hroken humeri, a coracoid, and two radii (the last being 

 identified tentatively on basis of agreement in size and contour). 

 Apjxirently the species was common in that area. These represent the 

 first records for the Florida duck in a fossil state. This species breeds 

 abundantly in Florida at the ]iresent time. 



NETTION CAROLINENSE (Gmelin) 



Green-winged teal 

 Anas caro!!)icusis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. 2, 1789, p. 533. 



In material collected by W. W. Holmes in the Seminole Field there 

 are ]>arts of two right and two left humeri, of right and left ulnae, and 

 a left coracoid. The humerus in this species is distinctly shorter than 

 in the blue-winged teal. 



This duck has been reported previously from the Pleistocene of 

 Oregon, and from several localities in California. 



QUERQUEDULA FLORIDANA Shufeldt 



Qitcrqitcdtila flor'ulana Sliufeldt, Florida State Geol. Surv., Ninth Ann. Rep., 

 1917, P- 36, pi. I, fig. 4, Pl- II, fig. 25. 



The type specimen of this teal (figs. 2-3) was collected in stratum 

 Number Two at Vero, Florida, and is now in the collections of the 



2 3 



Figs. 2-3. — Type of Qucrqiicdiihi floridttiia 

 Shufeldt (natural size). 



