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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



FtTLIGULA FERINA (Linn.), var. AMERICANA, (Eyton). 



Redhead. 



Fuligula americana, Eyton, Mouog. Anat., 1S3S, 155. 



Nyroca ferina, Woodu., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1S54, 104. 



Aythya ferina var. americana, Allen, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 183 (Great Salt 

 Lake). 



Fuligula ferina var. americana, Cotjes, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 2S9. — Yarrow & Hen- 

 shaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1S72, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 32.— Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, CO.— Coues, Birds North- 

 west, 1874, 575. 



Aythya erythrocephala, Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 103. 



Nyroca erythrocephala, Heerji., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 1850, 70. 



Aythya americana, Bd., P. R. R. Rep., Beckwith's Route, x, 1850, 10. — Id., Birds N. A., 

 185S, 793.— Id,, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Birds, 27.— 

 Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 103 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— Snow, 

 Birds Kan., 1872, 15. 



Wo procured a number of the Redheads about Utah Lake, where 

 individuals of the species were not numerous in November. As will be seen 

 by the above quotations, this duck is of very general occurrence through 

 the West, reaching to the Pacific coast, where Newberry gives it as common 

 about San Francisco. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



203 

 194 



<?jun. 

 <Jjun. 



Rush Lake, Utah 



Oct. 1, 1S72 

 Nov. 27, 1S72 



H. W. Henshaw and 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 

 H. W. Henshaw 































BUCEPHALA CLANGULA (Linn.). 



Golden Eye. 



Anas clangula, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 17GG, 201. 



Bucephala clangula, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 200.— Yarrow & Henshaw, Eep. 



Orn. Specs., 1S72, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 32.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 



1874, 57C. 

 Clangula americana, Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 504. 

 Bucephala americana, Bd., P. R, R, Rep., Beckwith's Route, 1850, 1C— Id., Birds N. A., 



1S5S, 790.— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 1800, 259.— Snow, 



Birds Kan., 1872, 15. 



The common Golden Eye visits the neighborhood of Utah Lake in great 

 abundance during the fall, and is, I think, a winter resident. Upon leaving 



