. The water birds of North America . -nis, have become extinct. That it has not entirely disappeared Mr. Boardman hashimself received evidence, single individuals of this species having been occasionallyprocured in the Bay of Fundy. Genus ENICONETTA, Okay. Macropus, Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 450 (nee Srix, 1824). Iolysticta, EYTON, Brit. Birds, 1S3G (type, Anas Stelleri, G-MEL.) ; antedated by Polysticte, Smith, , Bonaj>. Comp. List, 1838, 57 (same type) ; err. typ. for Slelleria, preoccupied in , BONAP. Iat. Met. 1S42, , Gray, Genera 13. IStn, 75 (sam
. The water birds of North America . -nis, have become extinct. That it has not entirely disappeared Mr. Boardman hashimself received evidence, single individuals of this species having been occasionallyprocured in the Bay of Fundy. Genus ENICONETTA, Okay. Macropus, Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 450 (nee Srix, 1824). Iolysticta, EYTON, Brit. Birds, 1S3G (type, Anas Stelleri, G-MEL.) ; antedated by Polysticte, Smith, , Bonaj>. Comp. List, 1838, 57 (same type) ; err. typ. for Slelleria, preoccupied in , BONAP. Iat. Met. 1S42, , Gray, Genera 13. IStn, 75 (same type).Heniconetta, Agass. I ml. Univ. 1846, 178 (num. emend.). Char. Bill a little longer than the tarsus, ami about intermediate in form between thai ofCamptolosmus and that of Histrionicus, compressed, and tapering toward the end, with a broad,depressed, and indistinctly defined nail, as in the latter, but with tie- maxillary tomium veryconvex basally and sinuated terminally, as in the latter ; edges of the maxilla turned imoard. against, and partly enclosing, the mandible ; feathers of the head and neck peculiarly soft andvelvety, except on the lores and occiput, where stiffened, on the latter elongated, and forming ashort transverse, crescent-shaped tuft. Tertials greatly decurved or falcate, but broad to the graduated, of fourteen pointed feathers. Colors of the male beautifully varied. This genus is quite intermediate between Ca/mptolcemus and Histrionicus in the form t the hill VOL. II. — 9 66 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. and in other characters, but is altogether peculiar in many respects. The turning inward of theedges of the maxilla, so as partly to cover the mandible, in the enclosed bill, is not found in anyother genus. The falcate tertials and the general style of coloration approximate it to the Eiders— which, however, are very different in the form of the bill, and in other respects. Eniconetta Stelleri. STELLERS DUCK. Anas Stelleri, Pall.
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