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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



FULIGULA FEEINA (Linn.), var. AMERICANA, (Eyton). 

 Redhead. 



Fuliffula aincricana, Eyton, Mouog. Anat., 1838, 155. 



Nyroca ferina, WooDU., Sitgrcave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1854, 104. 



Aythya ferina var. amcricana, Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 183 (Grrcat Salt 

 Lake). 



FuUgula ferina var. americana, COUES, Key N. A. Bird-s, 1872, 289. — Yarrow & IIen- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 32.— Denshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wbeeler's Exped., 1874, 09.— Coues, Birds North- 

 west, 1874, 575. 



Aythya erythroeephala, Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 103. 



Nyroca erythroeephala, IIeekji., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 70. 



Aythya americana, Bd., P. R. R. Rej)., Beckwith's Route, x, 1859, IG. — Id., Birds N. A., 

 1858, 793.— 7rf., U. S. & .Alex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 27.— 

 Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 193 (Port Tejon, Cal.). — Snow, 

 Birds Kau., 1872, 15. 



We procured a number of the Redheads about Utah Lake, where 

 individuals of the species were not numerous in November. As will be seen 

 by the above quotations, this duck is of very general occuiTence through 

 the West, reaching to the Pacific coast, where Newberry gives it as common 

 about San Francisco. 



BUCBPHALA CLANGULA (Liun.). 



Golden Eye. 



yl>ifl.s' ehnigula, LiNN., Syst. Nat., i, 176C, 201. 



Buccphala clangula, CoUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 290. — Yarrow & HENSHAW, Rep. 



Orn. Specs., 1872, Vvheeler's Exped., 1874, 32.— CouES, Birds Northwest, 



1874, 57G. 

 Clangula amcricana, Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 504. 

 Bucephala americana, Bd., P. R. R. Rep., Beckwith's Route, 1850, IC. — Id., Birds N. A., 



1858, 790.- Coop. & SuCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, i)t. ii, 18G0, 259.— Snow, 



Birds Kan., 1872, 15. 



The common Golden Eye visits the neighborhood of Utah Lake in great 



abundance during the fall, and is, I think, a winter resident. Upon leaving 



