66 ANATIN^. 



tree, about two lumdred yards from a la,L;oon on Cobborah Station, measures : — Length (A) 2t6 

 X i'55 inches; (15) 2-17 x i-(iinches: (C)2-i3 x 1-57 inches; (0)2-36 x 1-58 inches; (K) 

 2-22 X 1-58 inches: (F) 2-36 x 1-55 inches; (0)2-23 x 1-58 inches; (11)2-23 ^ 1-58 inches. 



Auijust until the end of |anu:iry constitutes the usual breedinj:^ season of the Maned Goose 

 in Eastern Austraha, Init it is .L;reatly inliuenced by the season : the late Mr. Geor<,'e Barnard, 

 of Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland, sent me a note that his sons had found a nest 

 containing nine eggs on the 7th June, 1889. In Central Australia Mr. C. E. Cowle informs me 

 it is after the rainy season sets in, in March and April, Mr. Keartland, while there in 1894 with 

 the Horn Scientific Expedition, recording young birds being caught unable to ily on the 19th 

 May. 



Subfamily ANATIN^. 

 <3-sn.-as iD:E;isriDisoc!~2"<3-nsr^i^, SicaiusoH. 



Dendrocygna arcuata. 



WHISTLING TRE-EDUCK. 

 Aims arnnUti, Cuvier, in Mas. Paris ; Horsf., Zool. Research in Java, pi. G-'i (18'2-2). 



Dnii/roc;/<juii nrnnitn, Gould, llils. Austr., fol. Vol. VII., pi. It (1848): Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mvi.s., Vol. XXVII., p 1.-)3(1S95): ."-^harpe, llaiid-1. Bds., Vol. I., p. -214 (1899). 



D,',ii/ror,/,/wi. •/■.„', /i. (iniilil, Haiidlik liils. .\ustr.. Vol. II, p. :^74 (180.^))- 



AlJlM.r .M.M.ic — dinirnl i-i,lniir nhnrf I'l'iii-iiUli-lihick, tin- fi'iilhers of tin' hark and tin' scajiulars 

 hriiiullii initiyini'il ivilJi rciHisli-chfsl mil nr rirli ncli rrnns-lnifj' : ijiiilh ami oii/i r iring-covcrts black, the 

 inii.f'r uuini-CdfTls ilfrp chflstunf : niin/i lilnek : ct'iilral 11 ^i^ifr tailcori'rls liliirk, Ihr lalrrnl ones 

 atra/v H^liily. tiiiijed uith I'n^ff, ami liiivinij blnckinh spots or niuriji-iis : tail lilark : i-nani of tin' lii'ad, 

 mijii' (iii<l a linf douui tin' lnnd-ii<ck liroa'nisli-lilack : fori'licad rich liroirn ■ siili'-< of hfnd and iipck 

 Jnlrniis^ darkrr on tlo' sidrs ot rniirii and iifi.rt thrliainl on tin' hindin'ck laiil /mssini/ almost into 

 pnn' irhi.lf on thr (•riitr,- 1;/ tlir throat and inx'k : for^ni'ck rnloas liafj, sjiothd a^ith black, a nil /inssiia/ 

 into /-cddish-chcst a lit on the brfast, rihich is richer at the sides: Icnfftlieiieil pliinies on the flanks 

 irhite or bii^fji/irliitc inari/iin'd on the oater /lortion of their ?r(7;s- /rith reddish-chestnut^ fnltoired hi/ a 

 broii'iiish-hlnck stripe, these ma rkiinjs in. s-iine instances beiinj co-iiflneil to one ireb only .■ thii/hs and 

 centre, of tli.e abdomen bii/fi/irlute, mottled anlh dark brown : rent and under laibcorerts hnffy-ichite ; 

 bill black : leus anil feet nshi/-c/rei/ ; iris brown. Tutal lenijth in. the Jlesh IS%5 inches, winy 80, fail 

 '2-S, bill 1-tj, tarsus l-'.l. 



Al)|ir,T VK-W.WA'.. -Similar in /iliimai/e to the male, but smaller. 



Distribution. — North-western Australia, Northern Territory of South Australia, (Queensland, 

 New South Wales. 



(STtCCOK DING to Count Salvadori in the " Catalogue of iJirds in the British Museum," 

 X~\. the Philiipines, Celebes, iJorneo, Java, /fimor, Sumatra, the Moluccas, New Guinea, 

 New Caledonia, and the Fiji Islands constitute the ultra-Australian range of the Whistling 

 Duck, .'\pparently the Northern Territory of South Australia is its stronghold, for Gould, 

 quoting Gilbert, remarks :' — " During the months of September, October, November and 

 December the Whistling Duck assembles in \ast Hocks on the lakes around the settlement at 

 Port Essington ; the lagoons and waterholes at that season of the year are so shallow, that this 

 and many other of the Duck tribe are enabled to wade among the herbage and procure an 

 • Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II , p. 374 (1865). 



