88 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
GENUS PHILACTE BANNISTER. 
Philacte BANNIsTER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 131. Type, by 
monotypy, Anas canagica SEVASTIANOFF. 
Philacte canagica (SEVASTIANOFF). Emperor Goose. [176.] 
Anas canagica SEVASTIANOFF, Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., XIII, 
1802, 349, pl. x. (Probably Kanaga (or Kyktak) Island, Aleutian 
Islands.) 
RanGe.— Coasts of Alaska. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound south 
to mouth of Kuskokwim, on St. Lawrence Island, and also on Chuk- 
chi Peninsula, Siberia, near East Cape; winters from the Commander 
and Near islands east through the Aleutians to Bristol Bay and Sitka; 
casual in British Columbia and California; accidental in Hawaii. 
Genus DENDROCYGNA Swarnson. 
Dendrocygna Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, 1837, 365. Type, by subs. 
desig., Anas arcuata HoRSFIELD (Gray, 1840). 
Dendrocygna 2utumniélis (LINNUs). Black-bellied Tree-duck. [177.] 
Anas autumnalis Linnazzus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 127. (West 
Indies.) 
RancGeE.— Southern Texas, Mexico, and Central America. Breeds 
from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Mazatlan, Mexico, and Panama; 
winters from central Mexico to Panama; accidental in Arizona and 
Jamaica. 
Dendrocygna bicolor (ViEILLOT). Fulvous Tree-duck. [178.] 
Anas bicolor Vir1LLoT, Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., V, 1816, 1386. (Para- 
guay.) 
RANGE.— Southwestern United States and Mexico, southern 
Uruguay and Argentina, South Africa and India. Breeds from 
central California, middle western Nevada, southern Arizona, and 
central Texas south to the Valley of Mexico and Michoacan; winters 
from central California and central Texas to southern Mexico; casual 
in Louisiana; accidental in British Columbia, Washington, Missouri, 
and North Carolina. 
