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specimens are not to be found in any one place and therefore it may be convenient to 

 recapitulate them all briefly in the order in which the birds were collected. 



CALIFORNIA 



(1) 1868. San Francisco market. Several specimens. Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci., iv, 1868, p. 9. 



(2) 1882, February 17. San Francisco market. Specimen no. 542 in the Bryant 

 collection. W. E. Bryant, Forest and Stream, xxvi, June 24, 1886, p. 426. 



(3) 1884, winter. Eureka, Humboldt County. Specimen shot by Charles Fiebig 

 and now in the Eureka Public Library. Townsend, Auk, in, 1886, p. 491; Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., x, 1887, p. 18.4. 



(4) 1884. Rio Vista, Solano County. Two specimens [in collection of F. H. 

 Holmes, obtained in San Francisco market January 25 and February, 1884]. Belding 

 MS, quoted by Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avifauna, no. 11, 1915, p. 33. 



(5) 1890, November 24. San Francisco Bay. Specimen no. 124,776, U. S. Nat. 

 Museum, collected by C. H. Townsend. 



(6) 1904, February 16. Bixby, Los Angeles County. Specimen shot by C. H. 

 Mears on the Pasadena Duck Club preserve and formerly owned by Joseph Welsh of Pasa- 

 dena. Now in the Grinnell collection. Grinnell, Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 383. 



(7) 1905, February 5. Bixby, Los Angeles County. Specimen shot by Robert Er- 

 skine Ross on the same marsh in which the Welsh specimen was obtained. Ross, Forest 

 and Stream, lxiv, Feb. 25, 1905, p. 153. 



(8) 1905? Eureka. Specimen in collection of Dr. F. H. Ottmer of Eureka. F. J. 

 Smith MS, quoted by Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, ''Game Birds Calif", (in press), p. 112. 



(9) 1908, December 5. Merced County. Specimen in California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, collected by Rollo H. Beck. Jos. Mailliaid, Condor, xx, May, 1918, p. 122. 



(10) 1911, October 20. Areata Bay, Humboldt County. Specimen shot by Alden 

 Trott. F. J. Smith MS, quoted by Grinnell, Bryant and Storer, "Game Birds Calif", 

 (in press), p. 112. 



(11) 1917, December 19. Norman, Glenn County. Specimen belonging to the 

 Zindo Gun Club, shot by Samuel Pond of San Francisco, and now in the office of Drs. C. 

 H. Bell and E. Pitres of that city. Jos. Mailliard, Condor, xx, May, 1918, p. 122. 



WASHINGTON 



(1) 1915, January 12. Nisqually Flats, Thurston County. Specimen shot by L. W. 

 Brehm of Tacoma. Bowles, Condor, xvn, Mar., 1915, p. 102; ibid., xvin, May, 1916, p. 129. 



(2) 1916, January 15. Nisqually Flats. Specimen shot by Mr. Ditz of South Ta- 

 coma and now in the Bowles collection, Tacoma. Bowles, Condor, xvin, May, 1916, p. 129. 



(3) 1917, March 31. Nisqually Flats. Specimen collected by' Stanton Warbur- 

 ton, Jr., and now in the Warburton collection, Tacoma. Warburton, Condor xix Julv 

 1917, p. 142. y - ' 



(4) 1918, January 13. Nisqually Flats. Two adult males brought in to Edwards 

 Bros, of Tacoma for mounting. Bowles, Condor, xx, Mar., 1918, p. 93. 



The California records include three birds from Humboldt Bay, three from San 

 Francisco Bay, two from Bixby, Los Angeles County, and one each from three interior 

 localities: Merced County; Rio Vista, Solano County; and Norman, Glenn County So 

 far as shown by the dates which have been recorded, the birds were shot during the four 

 months from October. 20 to February 17. Several of them are now preserved in public 

 I'sTT^Thii ^^ spe f™ hould be in the Oakland Museum, the Fiebig specimen 

 n to/t 7 at \ Eureka ' the Townsend specimen is in the National Museum, 



and the Beck specimen m the museum of the California Academy of Sciences 

 nu f !7 e Washin S' ton specimens were all obtained on the Nisqually Flats near 



SlTlT^ , betWeen JanUary 12 and MarCh 31 - At least two ire 'in h 

 collection of J. H. Bowles and one is in that of Stanton Warburton Jr 



P111 - v, . A1 \ J; he + blrds enumerated in the above lists were males. The difficulty of distin 

 guishing the females of Mareca penelope and Mareca americana probably explains why 

 more females of the former species are not recognized in the field and saved Cooplra 



he^^opLTwiLrr 8111611 Wm d0l f leSS brlng t0 Hght ° ther ^-cimens and show that 

 D 7 ac S L g + ? UrS m ° re fre ^ uentl y than is generally supposed. So far as 



