ORDER ANSERES. 73 
Ranoe.— Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds on the 
Arctic coast from Alaska to Keewatin and south to southern California, 
southern Colorado, northern Nebraska, northern Iowa, and northern 
Illinois; winters from southern British Columbia, Nevada, Arizona, 
southern Missouri, southern Wisconsin, southern Ohio, Pennsylvania 
(rarely), and Delaware south to Porto Rico and Panama, and in 
Hawaii; in migration occasional on the Atlantic coast to northern 
Ungava, Greenland, and Newfoundland, and in Bermuda. 
Genus AIX Bole. 
Aiz Bors, Isis, X XI, 1828, 329. Type, by subs. desig., Anas sponsa 
Linnazus (Eyton, 1838). 
Aix spénsa (LINN&us). Wood Duck. [144.] 
Anas sponsa Linnmvus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 128. (Virginia and 
Carolina.) 
RancE.— Temperate North America. Breeds from southern 
British Columbia, central Saskatchewan, northern Ontario, New 
Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to central California, southern 
Texas, Florida, and Cuba; winters chiefly in United States from 
southern British Columbia, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 
and New Jersey south to southern California and the Gulf of Mexico; 
accidental in Bermuda, Mexico, Jamaica, and Europe. 
SusraMILy FULIGULINE. Sea Ducks. 
[GeNuS NETTA Kavp. 
Netta Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 102. Type, by 
monotypy, Anas rufina Pauuas. 
Nétta rufina (PaLLAs). Rufous-crested Duck. [145.] 
Anas rufina Pauuas, Reise Russ. Reichs, II, 1773, 7138. (Caspian Sea.) 
RancE.— Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in eastern United States]. 
