184 axahb-t;. 



9. Sweden, 14tli June. Crowley Bequest. ' 



5. Livonia. Baltic Prov., 21st June Seebohm Coll. 

 (JRiissow). 



Fuli^la novae-zealandiae (&'/».). 



I'ulig-ula noTfe-zealandife, Potfs, Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii. p. 7'^> (1869); 

 Traiers, t. c. 'w. p. 208 (1871) ; BuUev, Birds New Zeal. inA ed. 

 ii. p. 274 (1888) : Salmdori, Cut. Birds B. M. x.wii. p. 368 (1895) ; 

 ShariK, Hand-l. i. p. 224 (1899). 



The eggs of the New Zealand Scaup Duck are long narrow 

 ellipses, smooth, glossy, and of a greyish cream-colour. Three 

 specimens measure respectively: 2'5 by 1-G7 ; 2-6 by] '58; 2o 

 by 1-62. 



1. New Zealand, 18th Oct. [Holds- Crowley Bequest. 



ivorth). 



2. Rangitata River, New Zealand, Crowley Bequest. 



3rd Jm. {Field Coll.). 



Genus TACHYERES, Owea. 



Tachyeres cinereus ( GmA. 



Mieropterus cinereus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 96; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, 



p. 161. 

 Mieropterus patachonicus, Abbott, Ibin, 1861, p. 162. 

 Tachyeres cinereus, 8cl. ^- Snlv. Zool. ' Chnllenqer' Exped. ii. pt. viii. p. 107 



(1880) ; Scl. t. c. p. 150 (1880) ; Salmdori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 



p. 373 (1895) : Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 224 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 246 (1899). 



The eggs of the Loggerhead-Duck are of a reg-ular broad oval 

 shape, smooth, fairly glossy, and of a brownish cream-colour. They 

 measure from 3-12 to 3-42 in length, and from 2-1 to 23 in breadth. 



4. Falkland Islands (C. C.^Wo«). Goidd Coll. 



7. Falkland Islands (C. C. ^.). Gould Coll. 



5. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. ^.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Falkland Islands. McCorniick Bequest. 



2. Falkland Islands. Voy. II.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



3. Falkland Islands. Purchased. 



1. Alert Bay, Straits of Magellan, Oct. Dr. Coppinger [P.]. 



L Elizabeth Island. Voy. II M.S. 'Challenger.' 



Genus CL/^NGULA, Leach. 

 Clangula clangula (Linn.). 



Anas clangula, 'J'/iie7i. Fortj^flanz. i/es. Viifj. tab. Ixxviii. lig. 5, a, h (1845- 



54) ; Wheelwrifiht, Spring ^- Summer in Lapland, p. 364 (1871). 

 Clanu-ula glaucion, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 56. tig. 3 (1855-63) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 595 (1875); Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. 



x.xvii. p. 376 (1895K 

 Fuligula vulgaris, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 435, pi. cxix. fig. i 



(1856). 



