82 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
SusGenus PELIONETTA Kavp. 
Pelionetta Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 107. Type, 
by monotypy, Anas perspicillata LINN&=Us. 
Oidemia perspicillata (LINN&us). Surf Scoter. [166.] 
Anas perspicillata L1InN&=vus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 125. (Hudson 
Bay.) 
RancE.— North America. Breeds on the Pacific coast from Kotze- 
bue Sound to Sitka, and from northwestern Mackenzie and Hudson 
Strait to Great Slave Lake, central Keewatin, and northern Quebec; 
non-breeding birds occur in summer in northeastern Siberia and south 
on the Pacific coast to Lower California, and in Greenland and south 
on the Atlantic coast to Long Island; winters on the Pacific coast from 
the Aleutian Islands south to San Quintin Bay, Lower California, on 
the Great Lakes, and south casually to Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Ilh- 
nois, and Louisiana, and on the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to 
North Carolina, rarely to Florida; casual in Bermuda; frequent in 
Europe. 
GENUS ERISMATURA Bonaparte. 
Erismatura Bonaparte, Giornale Arcadico, LII, 1832, 208. Type, by 
monotypy, Anas rubidus WILSON = A. jamaicensis GMELIN. 
Erismattra jamaicénsis (GMELIN). Ruddy Duck. [167.] 
Anas jamaicensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 519. (Jamaica.) 
RancGe.— North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 
Great Slave Lake, southern Keewatin, and northern Ungava south to 
northern Lower California, central Arizona, northern New Mexico, 
northwestern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, southern Michigan, 
southern Ontario, and Maine, and rarely and locally in southern 
Lower California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Valley of Mexico, Lake 
Duefias, Guatemala, and in Cuba, Porto Rico, and Carriacou; 
winters from southern British Columbia, Arizona, New Mexico, 
southern Illinois, Maine, Pennsylvania, and south to the Lesser An- 
tilles and Costa Rica; rare in migration to Newfoundland and 
Bermuda. 
