82 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Subgenus PELIONETTA Kaup. 



Peliomtta Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 107. Type, 

 by monotypy. Anas perspicillata Linn^us. 



Oidemia perspicillita (Linnaeus). Surf Scoter. [166.] 



Anas perspicillata Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 125. (Hudson 

 Bay.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds on the Pacific coast from Kotze- 

 bue Sound to Sitka, and from northwestern Mackenzie and Hudson 

 Strait to Great Slave Lake, central Keewatin, and northern Quebec; 

 non-breeding birds occur in summer in northeastern Siberia and south 

 on the Pacific coast to Lower California, and in Greenland and south 

 on the Atlantic coast to Long Island; winters on the Pacific coast from 

 the Aleutian Islands south to San Quintin Bay, Lower California, on 

 the Great Lakes, and south casually to Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Illi- 

 nois, and Louisiana, and on the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to 

 North Carolina, rarely to Florida; casual in Bermuda; frequent in 

 Europe. 



Genus ERISMATURA Bonaparte. 



Erismatura Bonaparte, Giornale Arcadico, LII, 1832, 208. Type, by 

 monotypy. Anas rubidus Wilson = A. jamaicensis Gmelin. 



Erismatura jamaicensis (Gmelin). Ruddy Duck. [167.] 



Anas jamaicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 519. (Jamaica.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 

 Great Slave Lake, southern Keewatin, and northern Ungava south to 

 northern Lower California, central Arizona, northern New Mexico, 

 northwestern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, southern Michigan, 

 southern Ontario, and Maine, and rarely and locally in southern 

 Lower California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Valley of Mexico, Lake 

 Dueiias, Guatemala, and in Cuba, Porto Rico, and Carriacou; 

 winters from southern British Columbia, Arizona, New Mexico, 

 southern Illinois, Maine, Pennsylvania, and south to the Lesser An- 

 tilles and Costa Rica; rare in migration to Newfoundland and 

 Bermuda. 



