BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 253 
Included in the list given in “‘The Naturalist in Bermuda,” but with 
no information appended. It has been occasionally seen, but rarely 
obtained, in the islands. It was obesrved on three occasions during my 
stay, one being seen on Peniston’s Pond in the autumn of 1874, one in 
the Great Sound on the 10th January, 1875, by the officers of the Fifty- 
third Regiment as they were leaving the islands on their homeward 
journey, and a third near Daniel’s Head by Lieutenants Denison and 
Hussey, Royal Engineers, early in February, 1875. A man of colour 
was seen by these two officers to fire at the last-named bird; but he 
stupidly let drive at it, with small shot too, at a hundred and twenty 
yards, instead of paddling much nearer to it,as he might have done. 
A wild Goose, weighing ten pounds when plucked, was shot in South- 
ampton parish on the 7th January, 1875, and eaten forthwith by the 
fortunate gunner or his friends. This undoubtedly belonged to the 
present species, but cannot be definitely recorded. 
Sub-family ANATIN At. 
Genus ANAS, Linn. 
142. Anas boschas, Linn. Mallard. 
Anas boschas, Linn., Gm., Lath., Pall., Wils., Boie, Lecht., Bp., Temm., Vig., 
Aud., Schl., and authors generally. 
Anas adunca, Linn., Gm., Jen., Donovan. 
Anas domestica, Gm. 
Anas (Boschas) domestica, Sw. & Rich., Nutt. 
Anas curvirostra, Pall. 
Anas freycineti, Bp. 
Anas fera, Briss., Leach. 
Length, 23; wing, 11; tarsus, 1.70. 
Hab.—Nearly cosmopolitan; wild throughout the whole of North 
America; breeding sparingly in United States as well as further north. 
Greenland, Cuba, Bahamas, Panama. (Coues.) 
A female was shot by an officer of the Fifty-sixth Regiment at War- 
wick Pond on November 3, 1854. It was in company with some tame 
ducks, always taking the wing moment any one approached the water 
(Nat. in B., p. 48). Four—a Mallard and three ducks—were observed 
in the Great Sound by Lieutenant Hussey, Royal Engineers, on the 23d 
December, 1874. 
143. Anas obscura, Gm. Black Duck; Dusky Duck. 
Anas obscura, Gm., Lath., Wils., Vieil., Steph., Bp., Nutt., Gray, Aud., Eyt., 
Gir., Cab., Bd., Coues, Schl., Lawr., and all authors. 
Length, 22; wing, nearly 12; tarsus, 1.80. 
