434 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



103. Botaurus lentiginosus (Montagu). 



Ardea lentiginosa Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl., 1813. 



Botaurus lentiginosus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVI, 1898, 259. — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1901, 182 (Guatemala and 

 Panama . — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 102 (Reventazon [Underwood]). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Cariblanco and Turrucares. 



The only published record of the occurrence of the Bittern in Costa 

 Rica is that of Mr. Bangs (Auk, 1907, 102). This seems rather odd, 

 because it is not an exceedingly rare bird there. Mr. Lankester 

 reports the taking of two specimens and tells me he saw others. I 

 myself saw two birds at the Laguna de Ochomogo in November, 1907, 

 where they were flushed from the water plants encircling the lagoon. 



Family ANATID^. 

 104. Cairina moschata (Linnaeus). 



Anas moschata Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 199, n. 16. 



Cairina moschata Moore, P. Z. S., 1859, 65. — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 

 378 (Guanacaste). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 408 (La 

 Palma de Nicoya). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893, 57 

 (Rio Grande deTerraba). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVII, 1895 

 51. — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 451 (Miravalles). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am , Aves, III, 1902, 198 (records cited). 



Bangs Collection: Bolson (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Palo Verde. 

 Carnegie Museum: Bebedero, Bagaces, Miravalles (Carriker). Three 



skins. 



A common duck over the greater part of the Pacific coast region, 

 but much more abundant in Guanacaste. I saw it on the Rio Grande 

 de Terraba and at Buenos Aires, where I flushed three birds from a 

 rice-field some distance from the river. On one occasion I saw a 

 single bird flying near Guacimo, not far from the Guacimo River. 

 This is the only record I have noticed from the Caribbean, but doubt- 

 less the bird is found on the lower San Juan River and contiguous 

 lagoons. This duck seems to be very difficult to domesticate in Costa 

 Rica, while Dendrocygna antumnalis is seen in a domesticated condi- 

 tion in many places on the Pacific coast. 



105. Dendrocygna viduata (Linnaeus). 



Anas viduata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 205, n. 38. 



Dendrocygna viduata Eyton, Monogr. Anat., no (1838). — CARRIKER, Ann. 



Carnegie Museum, Vol. IV, Nos. Ill and IV, p. 302 (Bebedero, April I, 



1908). 



