d2 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
[Genus CASARCA Bonaparte. 
Casarca BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 56. Type, by monotypy, 
Anas rutila PALLAS = Anas ferruginea PALLAS. 
Casarca ferruginea (PALLAS). Ruddy Sheldrake. [141.1.] 
Anas (ferruginea) Pauuas, in Vroeg’s Catal., 1764, Adumbr., 5. (Tar- 
tary.) 
RaNGE.— Southern Europe and northern Africa east to China and 
Japan, straggling to Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland.] 
GENus SPATULA Bote. 
Spatula Bors, Isis, X, 1822, 564. Type, by monotypy, Anas clypeata 
LINN2&US. 
Spatula clypedta (LinN=us). Shoveller. [142.] 
Anas clypeata Linnmvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 124. (Southern 
Sweden.) 
RancEe.— Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from 
northwestern Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, and southern Kee- 
watin south to southern California, central New Mexico, northern 
Texas, northern Missouri, and northern Indiana; winters from south- 
ern British Columbia, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Missouri, 
southern Illinois, Maryland, and Delaware south to the West Indies, 
Colombia, and Hawaii; in migration occasional in Bermuda, and 
north to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 
GENUS DAFILA STEPHENS. 
Dafila SterpHens, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 126. Type, by 
monotypy, Dafila caudacuta SrEPHENS = Anas acuta LINN2EUS. 
Dafila acita (LINNxus). Pintail. [143.] 
Anas acuta Linnxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. (Sweden.) 
