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The flock seemed to have lost their bearings and to be following 

 :he vessel as a guide. 



Description. — Adult male. Head and neck green; breast and outer 

 icapulars white; rest of under parts chestnut; crissum dark bluish green, 

 )ordered anteriorly by white; bill black and twice as wide at tip as at 

 )ase; feet orange-red. Length about 20 inches. Female duller. 



A.nas americana (Gmelin). Baldpate. 



A single juvenile specimen of this duck was taken by Professor 

 Schauinsland on Laysan, October 15, 1896. So far as I am aware 

 this duck has not yet been found in the main group. 



Description. — Adult male. Head and upper neck white, speckled with 

 dusky; sides of head with brown patch of metallic green; sides and 

 Banks vinaceous; back and scapulars grayish white. Female is duller. 

 Length from 18 to 22 inches. 



Anas boschas Linn. Mallard. 



Professor Schauinsland obtained a single adult male of this 

 species on the island of Laysan, July 11, 1895. This is the first 

 and, so far as I know, the only record for the islands. 



Description. — Adult male. Head and upper neck glossy green; neck 

 encircled with a white ring; breast purplish chestnut; greater wing- 

 coverts tipped with white and black; speculum violet with border of 

 black ; bill greenish yellow ; feet orange red.- Female with the wing as in 

 the male ; elsewhere mixed dusky and ochraceous. Length about 24 inches 

 more or less. 



Anas carolinensis Gmelin. Green-winged Teal. 



This is another of the American ducks of which Prof. Schau- 

 insland obtained a single specimen upon Laysan Island. This 

 bird was obtained October 27, 1896. 



Description. — Adult male. Head and upper neck chestnut with broad 

 patch of green behind eye, bordered by white; a broad white bar across 

 side of breast; upper hind neck with tuft of bluish black; chin and upper 

 throat black; lower neck, upper back, scapulars, sides and flanks mixed 

 black and white; speculum metallic green. 



Adult female. Above grayish dusky with buffy edgings and bars; head. _ 



