72 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[GENUS GASARGA BONAPARTE. 



Casarca BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 56. Type, by monotypy, 

 Anas rutila PALLAS = Anas ferruginea PALLAS. 



Cas&rca ferruginea (PALLAS). Ruddy Sheldrake. [141.1.] 



Anas (ferruginea) PALLAS, in Vroeg's Catal., 1764, Adumbr., 5. (Tar- 

 tary.) 



RANGE. Southern Europe and northern Africa east to China and 

 Japan, straggling to Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland.] 



GENUS SPATULA BOIE. 



Spatula BOIE, Isis, X, 1822, 564. Type, by monotypy, Anas clypeata 



LINN.EUS. 



Sptula clypeata (LINNAEUS). Shoveller. [142.] 



Anas clypeata LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 124. (Southern 

 Sweden.) 



RANGE. Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from 

 northwestern Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, and southern Kee- 

 watin south to southern California, central New Mexico, northern 

 Texas, northern Missouri, and northern Indiana; winters from south- 

 ern British Columbia, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Missouri, 

 southern Illinois, Maryland, and Delaware south to the West Indies, 

 Colombia, and Hawaii; in migration occasional in Bermuda, and 

 north to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 



GENUS DAFILA STEPHENS. 



Dafila STEPHENS, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 126. Type, by 

 monotypy, Dafila caudacuta STEPHENS = Anas acuta LINNAEUS. 



Dafila acuta (LiNN^us). Pintail. [143.] 



Anas acuta LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 126. (Sweden.) 



