254 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
Hab.—Eastern North America, especially along the Atlantic coast, 
from Labrador to Texas; lowa, Kansas, Cuba. (Coues.) 
Usually visits Bermuda in small numbers in the autumn, remaining 
till the end of January or even later. A flock of twenty frequented 
Harrington Sound and Peniston’s Pond from Christmas, 1871, to Feb- 
ruary 15, 1872 (J. M. Jones). Specimens were obtained by Lieutenant 
Denison and myself in January, 1875, when there were a good many 
about. They are always very shy, and when disturbed frequently fly a 
long way out to sea. 
Genus DAFILA, Leach. 
144, Dafila acuta, (Linn.) Bp. Pintail. 
Anas acuta, Linn., Gm., Lath., Temm., Boie, Licht., Less., Flem., Brehm., 
Wagl., Jen., Keys. & Blas., Degl., Schl., Wils., Bp., Nutt., Aud., Gir. 
Dafila acuta, Bp., Gray, Gosse, Reich., Cass., Bd., Cab., Scl., Heerm., Coop. & 
Suck., Newton, Hayd., Jerd., Coues, and authors generally. 
Querquedula acuta, Selby. 
Anas sparmannii, Lath. 
Anas caudacuta, Pall., Leach. 
Dafila caudacuta, Steph., Gar., Eyt. 
Querquedula caudacuta, Macgill. 
Anas longicauda, Briss., Brehm. 
Anas caudata, Brehm. 
Dafila acuta, var. americana, Bp. 
Length, 30; wing, 11; tail, 8.60; tarsus, 1.75. 
Hab.—North America and Europe; breeds chiefly in high latitudes; 
im winter south to Panama; Cuba. (Coues.) 
Several specimens were obtained, all in immature plumage, in the 
winter of 1847~48. Mr. Bartram has a male in full plumage, shot by him- 
self near St. George’s. A female was shot by Gibbs in Smith’s Marsh 
on the 26th October, 1875, as recorded by Lieutenant Denison, Royal 
Engineers. 
Genus CHAULELASMUS, Gray. 
145. Chaulelasmus streperus, (Linn.) Gray. Gadwall. 
Anas strepera, Linn., Gm., Lath., Wils., Temm., Boie, Bp., Steph., Flem., 
Brehm., Nutt., Aud., Naum., Keys. & Blas., Gir., De Kay, Schl., Degl., Swin., 
and of most earlier authors. 
Anas (Chauliodus) strepera, Sw. & Rich., Gen., Sw. 
Chauliodus strepera, Sw., Eyt. 
Chaulelasmus streperus, Gray, Bp., Gosse, Reich., Bd., Heerm., Jerd., Coues, 
Dress., and of authors generally. 
Gren anitala strepera, Macgill. 
Anas strepera americana, Maxim. 
Chaulelasmus americana, Bp. 
Length, 22; wing, 10.50; tarsus, 1.64. 
