Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and America. 
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ANATID&—continued. 
America. 
Dafila acuta.* (1.) Leach. 
From British America, through the 
United States, Mexico, and Central 
America, down to Costa Rica; also 
Cuba and Jamaica. (Dresser.) 
Accidental in Greenland, but not very 
rare. (Newton.) 
Anas boschas.* Linn. 
Entire continent of North America, 
(Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Mr. Dresser gives MHudson’s Bay, 
Mackenzie River, Saskatchewan, and 
Yukon; common from the Potomac to 
Texas, but says he did not meet with 
itin New Brunswic. 
Breeds in Greenland. (Newton.) 
Antilles, Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa 
Rica. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Querquedula discors.* Steph. 
winged Teal.) 
Eastern North America to the Rocky 
Mountains. (Baird, Cassin, and Law- 
rence. ) 
Mexico, Central America, and the An- 
tilles. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
(Blue- 
Querquedula crecca. 
Accidental on the east coast of the 
United States. Exceedingly similar 
to Q. carolinensis, but has the lower 
border of green on the sides of the 
head distinctly whitish, instead of 
obsoletely paler; the transverse bands 
on the sides and upper parts are 
better defined, and more distant; the 
band at the end of the greater coverts 
is broader and white, and that at the 
end of the lesser coverts narrower; the - 
long scapulars are creamy white, with 
the outer edge broadly velvet black, 
whilein Q. carolinensis they are grayish 
olive. (Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Querquedula carolinensis.* Baird. (Green- 
winged Teal.) 
The whole of North America. 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Four were obtained in South Greenland 
prior to 1860. (Newton.) 
Mexico and the Antilles. (Sclater and 
Salvin.) 
(Baird, 
Europe. 
(Thomp., Nat. Hist. Ivl., Birds, Vol. 
III, p. 112.) 
Some on Belfast Bay. (Thompson, op. 
cit.) 
One on the Essex Coast, Jan., 1864. 
(Carter, Zool. 1864, p. 8962.) 
One near Barnstaple, 20 April, 1870. 
(Mathew, Zool , 1870, p. 2182.) 
Dafila acuta.* (L.) Leach. (Pintail.) 
Throughout Europe, and down to North 
Africa, and in Asia from Siberia and 
Japan down to Ceylon. (Dresser.) 
Anas boschas.* Linn. (Mallard.) 
Throughout Europe, Canaries, Azores, 
Madeira, North Africa, astern 
Siberia and Kamschatka, Northern 
India, especially the North-West. 
Throughout the Amoor country, Japan, 
Northern China, Dauria. (Dresser.) 
Querquedula discors. 
Two have been taken in England, and 
one in Scotland. (Harting’s hand- 
book, p. 63.) 
One in France. (Degland and Gerbe, 
Vol. II., p. 521.) 
Querquedula crecca.* Steph. (Teal.) 
The entire Palearctic regions. Through- 
out Europe to North-Eastern Africa 
and Egypt, Madeira, Algeria, Siberia 
(Dresser. ) 
Querquedula carolinensis. 
Accidental in England. (He ting’s hand- 
book, p. 63.) 
