58 AET. 14. — E. LÖNNBEEG : 



92. Anas 2>lfftyr7iyncha^^ Linné. 



Khomatofka : Ic/^, June 14. 



Eecorded also by Ntkolskt, who believes it to breed in the 

 island. 



93. Anas ^onorhyncha Swinhoe. 



This species is only represented by a set of eggs collected 

 at the month of Susnya River on the 17th of May. 

 It has not been recorded by Nikolski. 



94. Nettion crecca (Linné). 



Mouth of Susnya River : Ic/, May 17. 

 Chipesani: 2??, Oct. 6; 1Ç, Oct. 21. 



Recorded by Nikolski as breeding in Saghalin. 



95. Eiinetta falcata (Geoegé). 



Chipesani: 1$, Ang. 4; 1$, Sept. 10. 



The latter sj)ecimen is much darker than the former. The 

 plumage of the specimen shot in August has the plumage much 

 worn and bleached ; at the same time it shows some difference 

 from the other in pattern, each feather of the back having a 

 pale sandy crescentic band within the broad dark brown margin, 



1) According to tlie generally accepted law of priority this name must be used instead 

 of the better known A.hos^chaa. A Swedish duck with "macula atari purpxirea utrinque nigra 

 allmque, pectore rufescenle" (Linnk: Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, p. 125) cnnnot be anytliing else 

 than what later authors have called "A. loschas"! 



