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speculum green, and the underparts white. The female suggests 

 somewhat the Bahama pintail but is grayer and has the tail grayish 

 brown, not different in color from the back.] 



DAFILA BAHAMENSIS BAHAMENSIS (Linnaeus) 

 BAHAMA PINTAIL, BAHAMA DUCK, PATO CBIOLLO 



Anas bahamensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, ed. 10, vol. 1, 175S, p. 124 (Bahamas). 



Dafila bahamensis, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1885, pp. 

 167-168 (possibly seen) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 86 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 323 (listed). 



Poecilonetta bahamensis, Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 99 (Haiti, 

 specimen ) . 



Poecilonetta 6. bahamensis, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 138; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 218 (Source Matelas). 



? Dafila caribaca " Herz. v. Wiirttemb." Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1852, p. 56 

 (Haiti). 



Dafila bahamensis bahamensis, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 192S, p. 491 (Etang Miragoane, Trou Caiman, Port-de-Paix). — Danforth, 

 Auk, 1929, p. 361 (Lagnna del Salodillo, Etang Bois-Neuf, Artibonite Sloughs, 

 Gonaives. ) 



Resident; fairly common. 



The Bahama pintail was overlooked by early travelers, except b} T 

 Cory who believed that he saw it on two occasions but was not 

 certain. 



The only records for the Dominican Republic are those of Abbott, 

 who secured one at Trujin February 8, 1922, and saw others near 

 Cabral in March, 1922, and of Danforth who found them abundant 

 at Laguna del Salodillo, near Copey. 



Paul Bartsch secured one at Trou Caiman, Haiti, on April 4, 

 1917, and preserved the head in alcohol. Abbott says that numbers 

 were found during the winter of 1916-1917 near Port-de-Paix, and 

 that a few bred there. He shot two at that point on April 14, 1917, 

 and April 5, 1920 secured two more on the Etang Saumatre. On 

 May 6 he took a male near Fond Parisien. Wetmore flushed two 

 from a salt water lagoon near Aquin on April 3, 1927, and observed 

 two near Gonaives and nine more north of Port-au-Prince on April 

 28 in passing low over the coastal swamps by airplane. Danforth 

 saw thirty at the fitang Bois-Neuf, south of St. Marc July 25, col- 

 lected one on the Artibonite Sloughs July 28, and saw a dozen near 

 Gonaives July 30, 1927. Bond found it in 1928 at the fitang Mira- 

 goane, where he secured a male February 4, at Trou Caiman, where 

 he took a female June 22, and at Port-de-Paix. He speaks of it 

 as the most numerous of the resident ducks, and says that though 

 it prefers fresh water it frequents salt water lagoons, being the 

 only duck in this area having that habit. 



