CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 229 



65 (142) Shoveller 



Spatula clypeata (Linn.) 



66 (143) Pintail 



Dafila acuta (Linn.) 



67 (144) Wood duck 



Aix sponsa (Linn.) 



68 [145] Rufous-crested duck 1 

 Netta rufina (Pall.) 



1 This European species is known in the United States only by one specimen found in Fulton 

 market, New York, and supposed to have been shot on Long Island. See Dul. Nutt. am. .•/»?>, 

 6 : 173; also Proo. U. S. nat. mus. 1881, p. 22-24. 



