626 ORNITnOLOGY. 



BuCEPnALA CL^VNGULA. 

 (lioI«lvn-cyc. 



/?. americana. 



Clangnla americana, Bonap., Coinp. & Geog. List, 1S38, 5S. 



Bucepkala americana, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 79G; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, 

 No. 593. 



Bucephala danqula, CoUES, Key, 1872, 290 (not Anas clangnla, hiJiV., = Bucepk- 

 ala); Check List, 1873, No. 505; Birds N.W., 1874, 57G.— HenshAW, 1875, 

 480. 



Pyramid Lake, in December. 



Bucephala albeola. 



Biitter-ball. 



Anas albeola, LiNN., Syst. Nat., I, 17G6, 199. 



Bucephala albeola, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1853, 797 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 



595.— CouES, Key, 1872, 290; Check List, 1873, No. 507 ; Birds N.W., 1874, 



577.— Henshaw, 1875, 482. 



Winter resident on the lakes and larger rivers of the Interior. 



List of specimens. 



387, 3 ad.; Pyramid Lake, December 27, 18G7. 14^— 24i— 7^— 5^%— I/jt-IJ- 



3 lA. Bill, deep leaden-blue, dusky on the nail, on the basal portion of the cnlmen, 



and behind the nostril; iris, dark vandyke-brown ; tarsi and feet, clear pinkish white, 

 with a slight lilac tinge. ' 



Erismatura EUBIDA. 



^ RiKldy Duck. 



Alias 7-nbida, Wilson, Am. Orn., VIII, 1814, 128, 130, pi. 71, figs. 5, G. 



Erismatura rubida, Bonap., Coinp. & Geog. List, 1S3S, .59.— Baird, Birds N. Am., 

 1858, 811; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. G09.— CoUEs, Key, 1872, 295; Check 

 List, 1873, No. 519 ; Birds N.W., 1874, 583.— Henshaw, 1875, 483. 



This Duck, the adult male of which is very conspicuous from its 

 peculiar markings, was abundant in the lagoons near Sacramento. In the 

 Interior it seemed to be rare, a female killed at Pyramid Lake, in Decem- 

 ber, being about the only one seen. 



