CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMEEICAN BIRDS. 



Genus PHILACTE Bannister. 



Philacte Bannister, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1870, 131. Type, by 

 monotypy. Anas canagica Sevastianofp. 



Philacte candgica (Sevastianoff). Emperor Goose. [176.] 



Anas canagica Sevastianoff, Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., XIII, 

 1802, 349, pi. X. (Probably Kanaga (or Kyktak) Island, Aleutian 

 Islands.) 



Range. — Coasts of Alaska. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound south 

 to mouth of Kuskokwim, on St. Lawrence Island, and also on Chuk- 

 chi Peninsula, Siberia, near East Cape; winters from the Commander 

 and Near islands east through the Aleutians to Bristol Bay and Sitka; 

 casual in British Columbia and California; accidental in Hawaii. 



Genus DENDROCYGNA Swainson. 



Dendrocygna Swainson, Classif. Birds, II, 1837, 365. Type, by subs, 

 desig.. Anas arcv/ita Hobsfield (Gray, 1840). 



Dendrocygna autumnilis (LiNN^us). Black-bellied Tree-duck. [177.] 



Anas autumnalis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 127. (West 

 Indies.) 



Range. — Southern Texas, Mexico, and Central America. Breeds 

 from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Mazatlan, Mexico, and Panama; 

 winters from central Mexico to Panama; accidental in Arizona and 

 Jamaica. 



Dendrocygna bicolor (Vieillot). Fulvous Tree-duck. [178.] 



Anas bicolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., V, 1816, 136. (Para- 

 guay.) 



Range. — Southwestern United States and Mexico, southern 

 Uruguay and Argentina, South Africa and India. Breeds from 

 central California, middle western Nevada, southern Arizona, and 

 central Texas south to the Valley of Mexico and Michoacan; winters 

 from central California and central Texas to southern Mexico ; casual 

 in Louisiana; accidental in British Columbia, Washington, Missouri, 

 and North Carolina. 



