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[B 590, C 502, R 616, C 722.] 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding far north and migrating 

 south to Guatemala and the West Indies. 



Genus GLAUCIONETTA Stejneger. 



Glaucionetta Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 409. Type, 

 Anas clangula Linn. 



151. Glaucionetta clangula americana (Bonap.). 



American Golden-eye. 



Clangula americana Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 58. 

 Glaucionetta clangula americana Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 VIIL 1885, 409. 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding from Maine and the 

 British Provinces northward ; in winter, south to Cuba and Mexico. 



152. Glaucionetta islandica (Gmel.). 



Barrow's Golden-eye. 



Anas islandica Gmel. S. N. I. 1788, 541. 



Glaucionetta islandica Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIIL 1885, 

 409. 



[B 594, C 506, R 619, C 726.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern North America, south in winter to New 

 York, Illinois, and Utah ; breeding from the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 northward, and south in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado ; Green- 

 land ; Iceland. Accidental in Europe. 



Genus CHARITONETTA Stejneger. 



Charitonetta Stejn. Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. 1885, 163. Type, 

 Anas albeola Linn. 



153. Charitonetta albeola (Linn.). 



Buffle-head. 



Anas albeola Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, I. 1758, 124. 

 Charitonetta albeola Stejn. Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. 1885, 166. 



