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p. 227 (Cuba) ; Scl. P. Z.S. 1857, p. 206 (Jalapa, Mexico) ; Scl. 

 et Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 231 (Guatemala), et Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 

 p. 130; March, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, p. 71 (Jamaica); Lawr. Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y.viii. p. 13 (Panama), et ix. (1868) p. 143 (Costa Rica); 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 314 (Mexico); Gundl. Eepert. F.-N. 

 i. p. 388, et J. fur Orn. 1875, p. 378 (Cuba). 



Hab. Cuba (Gundlach) ; Jamaica (March) ; Mexico, Jalapa 

 (Salle); Mazatlan (Grayson) ; Coahuaha (Xantus) ; Belize (Salvin) ; 

 Guatemala, Duenas (Salvin) ; Costa Rica (Lawrence) ; Panama 

 (M'Leannan). 



In Cuba the Pintail is very common on passage during the winter 

 and autumnal months. It also occurs in Jamaica in numbers as a 

 winter visitant. It was seen at Belize by Salvin, and is a common 

 visitor to the Lake of Duenas in winter. Its furthest recorded loca- 

 lity south appears to be the isthmus of Panama, where M'Leannan 

 found it. 



2. Dafila spinicauda. 



Pato cola ayuda, Az. Apunt. no. 429 (Buenos Ayres), unde 

 Anas spinicauda, Vieill. N. D. v. p. 135 (1816) et Enc. Me'th. 

 p. 356 ; Burm. La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 515; Schl. Mus. de P.-B. 

 Anseres, p. 39. 



Erismatura spinicauda, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 27 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras, 

 p. 321 (1870). 



Dajila spinicauda, Scl. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 665, t. xxxviii. (Chili) ; 

 Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 146 (Rep. Arg.), 1869, p. 157 (Tiuta, 

 Peru), et Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 130. 



Anas oxyura, Meyen, Nov. Act. xiv. Suppl. p. 122 (1833) ; 

 Menem, Ersch. & Gruber's Enc. sect. i. vol. xxxv. p. 43 ; Gay, Faun. 

 Chil.p.449 (1848); Cassin, Gilliss's Exp. ii. p. 202(1856); Burm. La 

 Plata-Reise, ii. p. 515 (Mendoza) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 335 (Chili) ; 

 Ph. &Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 41. 



Dafila urophasianus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 389 (Falklands) ; 

 Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 160 (Falklands). 



Dafila — sp.? Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1868, p. 189 (Sandy Point). 

 Anas caudacuta, Burm. J. fur Orn. 1860, p. 266 (Mendoza). 

 Supra fusca, plutnis in centro niyricuntibus fusco circumdatis ; 

 pileo Icete rufescente niyro punctulato ; alis extus fuscis, spe- 

 culo alari amplo ceneo-niyro, fascia lata cervina utrinque margi- 

 nato ; sub t us jjectore et hypochondriis cum, crisso rufescentibus, 

 plutnis in centro niyris ; gutturesordide albo puree niyro punc- 

 tato ; ventre albo in parte inferiore fusco obsolete varieyato ; 

 rostro niyro, mandibula ad basin utrinque flava j pedibus plum- 

 beis : long, tola 19*0, alee 9*7, caudce rectr. med. 5'5, ext. 3, 

 rostri a rictu 2 # 3, tarsi 1*6. Fern, mari similis. 

 Hab. S. Brazil, S. Paulo (Natt.) ; Monte Video (Sellow) ; Buenos 

 Ayres (Azara, Hudson) ; Rio Parami et Mendoza (Burm.) ; Ma- 

 gellan Straits (Cunniuyh.) ; Falklands (Abbott) ; Chili (Phil, et 

 Landb.); S. Peru, Tinta {U'hitefy). 



This Pintail has a wide distribution in Antarctic America, extend- 



