38 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ANSERES 



ANATIDAE. 



72. Marila vallisneria (Wilson) A. O. U. comm. 



Canvas-back. 



Anas valisineria Wils., Amer. ornith., 1814, vol. 8, p. 103, pi. 70, 

 fig. 5. "Hudson and Delaware .... rivers .... and in the 



NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE CHESAPEAKE BaY." 



Fuligula valisneriana (Wils.). Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1843, vol. 6, p. 299, pi. 395. 



Fresh and salt water; nests in marshes. 



Me. — Very rare fall migrant. 



Vt. — Very rare migrant: Lake Champlain (Perkins). 

 Mass.— Rare migrant. Mar. 11-31; Oct. 19-Dec. 18 (Jan. 

 8, Cambridge). 



R. I. — Rare migrant. April; Oct. 2-Nov. 16. 

 Conn. — Rare migrant. May 7. 



73. Marila marila (Linne) A. O. U. comm. 



Greater scaup; Blackhead; Bluebill; Bluehead; Broadbill; Raft 

 duck; Widgeon. 



Anas marila Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 196. "in 



EUROPAE ALPINIS IN SVECIA, NoRVEGIA, AuSTRIA." 



Fuligula marila (Linne). Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, 

 vol. 7, p. 355, pi. 498. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 46, pi. 14, fig. 2. 

 Fresh and salt water; nests in marshes. 



Me. — Common coastwise migrant; rare in winter. Oct.- 

 Nov.; (winter); Mar .-April. 



N. H. — Uncommon migrant, mainly coastwise. April; Oct.- 

 Dec. 13. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant at Lake Champlain. 



Mass. — Rare spring, and common fall migrant; winters locally 

 on coast. Mar. 27-May 1; Sept. 18-Dec. 26; winter. 



