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closely allied to our Blue-wing, but with the head, neck, breast, 

 and sides bright cinnamon. These two little ducks divide the 

 United States between them in the summer, but flock south to- 

 gether during cold weather. 

 Shoveller Duck. Spatula, dypeata (Linn.), pp. 73, 119, 123. 

 Found on the Chapala marshes and small water pools on the 

 tableland. 

 Pintail Duck. Dafila acuta (Linn.), pp. 73, 114, 119. 



Found in large numbers on Lake Chapala. The migration 

 northward had begun in February. 

 Canvas-back Duck. Aythya vallisnei-ia (AVils.). p. 119. 



Four were observed on the Chapala marshes. 

 Lesser Scaup Duck. Aythya affinis (Eyt.). pp. 4, 113, 119, 

 123. 



Common at Chapala and on small ponds on the tableland. 

 All that were examined in the hand were affinis. 

 Snow Goose. Chen hyperhorea (Pall.), pp. 120, 121. 

 White-fronted Goose. Anser alhlfrons (Gmel.). pp. 119, 120. 

 We saw large flocks of these two species of Geese on the 

 Chapala marshes. About the middle of March they were start- 

 ing northward in great numbers. 

 Roseate Spoonbill. Ajaia ajaia (Linn.). 



Two individuals of this beautiful species were seen in the hot 

 lowlands of the Pacific coast. 

 White Ibis. Guara alba (Linn.), p. 316. 



A flock of eleven birds haunted a stream near our camp in 

 the lowlands of Colima. 

 White-faced Glossy Ibis. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.), pp. 75, 

 81, 82, 119, 123. 



We saw many flocks of fifty or more of these birds on the 

 Chapala marshes ; others near Guadalajara and on the wayside 

 pools from La Barca to Tuxpan. 

 Wood Ibis. Tantalus loculator Linn. pp. 5, 332. 



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