1889. | SENNETT on a New Shecies of Duck from Texas. 263 
In this way we should expect to find the largest number of the 
birds on the coast near Block Island where the wind was on shore, 
and at points more and more distant from this place their numbers 
would gradually diminish. A comparison of the list of localities 
at which the birds were found, with the map showing the direc- 
tion of the wind when the centre was near Block Island, will show 
that this was apparently the case. At Cape Hatteras we should 
expect to hear that Killdeer appeared in considerable numbers on 
Noy. 24, but the storm was moving north so rapidly that in a few 
hours the wind blew across Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard (see 
dotted line on the map) before reaching Cape Hatteras, and few 
if any of the birds would have been carried across the land without 
alighting. 
A NEW SPECIES OF DUCK FROM TEXAS. 
BY @aoINers B. SENNETT. 
Anas maculosa, noy. spec. MorTrLep Duck. 
& adult. Type in my collection, No. 5857, taken by J. A. Singley, 
April 4, 1889, at Nuesces Bay, near Corpus Christi, Texas; collector's No. 
1386. 
Spec. CHar.—Top of head blackish brown, margined with very pale 
buff; chin and throat isabella color; cheeks buffy white with narrow 
streaks of dark brown. Feathers of breast, wings, upper parts, and flanks 
blackish brown margined with pale buff. Under parts buffy white, each 
feather with a broad blackish brown spot near the tip, giving a decided mot- 
tled appearance. Under tail-coverts blackish with outer margin of inner 
web reddish buff, that of outer web buffy white. The four median feathers 
of tail blackish brown; the others fuscous margined with pale buff having 
a V-shaped mark as in A. fulvzgula, but of a buffy white. Under surface 
of all tail-feathers light gray excepting the four median which are black- 
ish brown. Lining of wing white. Speculum metallic purple, feathers 
tipped with white. Bill has small black spot on base of iower edge of 
upper mandible, as in A. fulvigula. Feet reddish orange. Wing, 10.05; 
culmen, 2.253; tarsus, 1.75; middle toe and claw, 1.50 inches. 
@ adult. Type in my collection, No. 5858, taken by J. A. Singley, April 
4, 1889, at Nuesces Bay, near Corpus Christi, Texas; collector’s No. 
1387. 
