72 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[Genus OASARCA Bonaparte. 



Casarca Bonapabte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 56. Type, by monotypy, 

 Anas rutila Pallas = Atuis ferruginea Pallas. 



Casfirca ferruginea (Pallas). Ruddy Sheldrake. [141.1.] 



Anas (femiginea) Pallas, in Vroeg's Catal., 1764, Adiimbr., 5. (Tar- 

 taiy.) 



Range. — Southern Europe and northern Africa east to China and 

 Japan, straggling to Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland.] 



Gentjs spatula Boie. 

 Spatula BoiB, Isis, X, 1822, 564. Type, by monotypy, Anas clypeata 



LiNNiEUS. 



Sp&tula clypeita (Linnjeus). Shoveller. [142.] 



Anas clypeata LinnjEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 124. (Southern 

 Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from 

 northwestern Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, and southern Kee- 

 watin south to southern California, central New Mexico, northern 

 Texas, northern Missouri, and northern Indiana; winters from south- 

 ern British Columbia, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Missouri; 

 southern Illinois, Maryland, and Delaware south to the West Indies, 

 Colombia, and Hawaii; in migration occasional in Bermuda, and 

 north to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 



Genus DAFILA Stephens. 



Dafila Stephens, General Zoology, XII, Pt. ii, 1824, 126. Type, by 

 monotypy, Dafila caudacuta Stephens = Anas acuta Linn^us. 



DSfila acfita (Linn^us). Pintail. [143.] 



Anas acuta Linn^bus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 126. (Sweden.) 



