iS9i-] SiiUFELDT Oil Fossil North Aiiier/ccii/ Hirds. \^^ 



the fiiht or second year, No. 11284, wliich differs from the bird of Feb. 9 

 (No. 1 1000) in having the black of the head broken by mottled bars of 

 black and chestnut, one above and one below the eye, nnd has no white 

 patch in the angle of the lower mandible. The black of the head is not 

 so intense as in No. iiooo. This bird was shot in a shallow pond just 

 above the house where I had not been for some days. A boy told me 

 there were at least three small Ducks in this pond and he thought four. 

 He had seen them two or three times in the last few days. On going to the 

 pond, one end of which has a dense growth of rushes, two Ducks were 

 seen, but only one killed, the other escaping wounded into the grass. The 

 testes of the bird taken were rather more than a quarter of an inch long 

 and an eighth of an inch in the smaller diameter. These little Ducks do 

 not seem at all rare on the Island, and have much the habits of the Grebes, 

 frequenting small fresh water ponds and depending rather on hiding in 

 the grass or diving than on flight to escape pursuit. They arc said by 

 the native gunners to breed at various points on the island. 



39. Chen hyperborea (/'rt//.). Lesser Snow Goose. — "Accidental in 

 Jamaica." (Cory, Birds of the West Indies, p. 259.) 



40. Branta canadensis {Li'i/n.^. Canada Goose. — "Recordeti from 

 Jamaica." (Cory, Birds of the West Indies, p. 260.) 



41. Dendrocygna arborea (/./;/«.). Black-bellied Whistling Duck. 

 — Said to be common at points on the island and to breed in the man- 

 grove swamps. TGosse, Birds of Jamaica, pp- 395-399-) 



42. Dendrocygna autumnalis {Li'in/.). Black-bellied Tree Duck. — 

 "The Red-billed Whistling Duck {D. autumnalis') though much less com- 

 mon in Jamaica than the preceding {D. arhorca) is found there in some 

 seasons as an autumnal visitant from the Spanish- Main." (Gosse, Birds 

 of Jamaica, p. 398.) 



43. Phcenicopterus ruber Litni. American Flamingo. Red Flam- 

 ingo. — The visits of F'iamingoes to the coast of Jamaica are now very rare, 

 and, so far as I was able to ascertain, none breed at present on the island. 

 Formerly the visits of these birds seem to have been of regular occur- 

 rence. 



\^To be continued .^ 



TERTIARY FOSSILS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



BY R. W. SIIUFELDT, M. D. 



Upon examining a collection of fossil birds from the Silver 

 Lake Region of Southwestern Oregon, reccntl}^ submitted to me 

 by Professors E. D. Cope and Thomas Condon for description, 



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