ORDER ANSERES. by 



a. Anas fulvigula fulvignla RIDGWAY. Florida Duck. [134.] 



Anas obscura var. fulvignla RIDGWAY, Amer. Nat., VIII, Feb., 1874, 111. 

 (St. John's River, Florida.) 



RANGE. Northwestern to southern Florida. 



6. Anas fulvigula maculosa SENNETT. Mottled Duck. [134a.] 



Anas maculosa SENNETT, Auk, VI, July, 1889, 263. (Nueces Bay, near 

 . Corpus Christi, Texas.) 



RANGE. South central United States. Resident in southern Texas and 

 southern Louisiana; accidental in Kansas. 



GENUS CHAULELASMUS BONAPARTE. 



Chaulelasmus BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 56. Type, by 

 monotypy, Anas strepera LINN.EUS. 



Chaulelasmus streperus (LiNN^us). Gadwall. [135.] 



Anas strepera LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 125. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Nearly cosmopolitan. In North America breeds from 

 southern British Columbia, central Alberta, and central Keewatin 

 south to southern California, southern Colorado, northern Nebraska, 

 and southern Wisconsin; winters from southern British Columbia, 

 Arizona, Arkansas, southern Illinois, and North Carolina south to 

 southern Lower California, central Mexico (Jalisco), and Florida; 

 accidental in Bermuda, Cuba, and Jamaica; rare in migration on the 

 Atlantic coast of the Middle and New England States north to 

 Newfoundland. 



GENUS MARECA STEPHENS. 



Mareca STEPHENS, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 130. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Mareca fistularis STEPHENS = Anas penelope LINNAEUS 

 (Eyton, 1838). 



Mareca penelope (LINNAEUS). European Widgeon. [136.] 



Anas penelope LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Northern part of the Eastern Hemisphere. Occurs 

 occasionally in winter and in migration from Wisconsin, Michigan, 



