BAHAMA DUCK 
ANAS BAUAMENSIS Linnb 
(Plate 41) 
Synonymy 
Anas bahamensis Linne, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 124, 1758. 
Anas ilathera Bonnaterre, Encyclop. Methodique, vol. 1, p. 151, 1791. 
Anas rubrirostris Vieillot, Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Hist. Nat., vol. 5, p. 108, 1816. 
Mareca bahamensis Stephens, General ZooL, vol. 12, pt. 2, p. 137, 1824. 
Anas urophasiamis Vigors, Zoological Journ., vol. 4, p. 357, 1829. 
Phasianurus vigorsii Wagler, Oken’s Isis, 1832, column 1235. 
Dafila urophasianus Eyton, Monograph Anatida*, p. 112, pi. 20, 1838. 
Paecilonitta bahamensis Eyton, Monograph Anatidse, p. 116, 1838. 
Poecilonifta bahamensis G. R. Gray, List Genera Birds, p. 74, 1840. 
Anas fimbriaia Merrem, Ersch and Grube’s Encyclop., sect. 1, vol. 35, p. 35, 1841. 
Dafila bahamensis G. R. Gray, List Birds British Mus., vol. 3, p. 135, 1844. 
Poecilonetta bahamensis Reichenbach, Synopsis Avium, Natatores, pi. 83, fig. 922, 
1845. 
Paecilonetta urophasianus Bonaparte. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 43, 
p. 650, 1856. 
Vernacular Names 
English: Bahama Duck, Bahama Pintail, Green-winged Teal — (Andros Island). 
German: Bahama Ente, Weisskehlige Ente. 
French: Canard de Bahama, Canard a bee rouge. 
Dutch: Bahama Taling. 
Spanish: Pato de campo, Pato de la orilla, Pato pico roxo, Pato de rio, Pato jergon 
grande, Pato gargantilla. 
Portuguese: Marreca toicinho. 
DESCRIPTION 
Adult Male: Whole top of head to just below the eyes, reddish brown, thickly streaked with black. 
All the rest of head and lower side of neck pure white. Upper side of neck paler brown. Mantle brown, 
thickly covered with round black spots. Scapulars black, edged with reddish. Back and rump black; 
upper tail-coverts and tail buff-color to reddish buff. Lower parts like the mantle, brown and 
heavily spotted, but the spotting thicker on the breast. Flanks with large black spots. Under tail- 
coverts rich reddish brown. Wing-coverts dark olive gray, except the last row, which are fawn-color 
at the tips, forming an anterior speculum band. Speculum bright green to coppery green with a nar- 
row black band followed by a wide buff band formed by the tips of the secondaries. Primaries black- 
ish, tertials long and pointed, black or olive black in center and bordered with fawn-color. Under 
wing-coverts mostly dark brown, but the greater ones gray and the inner ones white. Axillars white. 
