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DAFIL-A ACUTA. 



KOLOA MAPU. 



Anas acuta, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 202 (1766) ; Schlegel, Cat. Mus. P.-B. Anseres, p. 38 



(1866). 

 Dafila caudacuta, Stephens (Shaw), Zool. xii. pt. 1, p. 127 (1824). 

 Dafila acuta, Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & Orn. p. 341 (1858) ; Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 



1859, p. 231 ; iid. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 391 ; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-B. N. Am. 



i. p. 511 (1884) ; Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 153 (1885) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. 1887, p. 136. 



[The above references are almost limited to the appearance of this well-known Holarctic 

 species in the countries bordering on the North-Pacific Ocean.] 



The well-known Pintail Duck is only a winter visitor to the Sandwich Islands, in this 

 respect resembling the Shoveller. The first record of its occurrence there is that by 

 Dr. Stejneger, in the ' Proceedings of the United States National Museum' for 1888, a 

 male having been procured for him in Kauai by Mr. Knudsen, who gave its native name 

 as " Koloa mapu." I also observed several on the sea-coast near Kiholo, in Hawaii, in 

 the month of December. Drs. Townsend and Pickering are stated by Cassin to have 

 noticed it in Oregon ; but no specimens were brought home by the United States 

 Exploring Expedition. 



According to Messrs. Sclater and Salvin, the furthest locality to the southward in 

 which the bird has been observed is the Isthmus of Panama, where McLeannan found 

 it. Northwards its distribution is, of course, general throughout the Arctic Eegions ; 

 while it has been found in California, and commonly during winter in Guatemala, Cuba, 

 and Jamaica. As regards the other side of the Pacific, Messrs. Dresser and Sharpe, in 

 their ' Birds of Europe,' record it from the whole of Siberia to Japan and China. 



