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Ilah. Zanzibar, according to Sclater, but probably confined to 

 Transvaal, Natal, and South Africa. 



a. (S ad. sk. Potcliefstroom, July {T. J. II. Gumey, Esq. 



Ayres). [P.]. 



h. S imm. sk. Transvaal, J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 c. (S ad. sk. [Zanzibar] died Aug. Zool. Soc. (Type of 



species.) 

 ^?. 5 ad. sk. In captivity. Hon. Miss Eose Hub- 



bard [P.]. 

 e. Juv. St. Cape of Good Hope. South African 



Museum [P.]. 



4, Plectropterus scioanus. 



Plectropterus niger, Salvad. (nee Sclat. ?) Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) i. 



p. 238 (Shoa) (1884), vi. p. 318 (Shoa) (1888). 

 Plectropterus scioanus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p, 239 



(Shoa) (1884), vi. p. 319 (Shoa) (1888). 



Similar to P. niger, having black throat and cheeks, no bare 

 spaces on the sides of the neck, or seldom a very small one, and the 

 under tail-coverts mostly black, but has a small frontal knob, 

 covered, like the skin of the forehead, with many caruncles ; size 

 large, as in P. niger. 



Hah. Shoa. 



6. CAIRINA. 



Cairina, Fleming, Phil, of Zool. ii. p. 200 (1822) C. moschata. 



Mosch.ntus (subgenus), Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 416 



(1828) C. moschata. 



Gymnathus (subgenus), Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 403 



( 1834) C. moschata. 



Carina, Eyton, Hon. Anal. pp. 47, 142 (1838). 

 Hyonetta, Sund. Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 146 



(1873) , C. moschata. 



Moscha, " Leach,^' fide G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 85 



(1871). 



Range. Tropical America. 



1. Cairina moschata. 



Anas sylvestris, Marcgr. Hist. Nat. Bras. p. 213. 

 Anas cairina, Aldrov. Orn. iii. p. 199, t. 200, 201. 

 Anas moschata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 199, n. 16 (1766) ; Gni. S. N. i. 



2, p. 515, n. 16 (1788) ; Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 846, n. 37 ri790) ; 



Bonn. Bnc. Meth. i. p. 124, pi. 34. f. 1 (1790) ; Lath. Tr. Linn. 



Soc. iv. p. 113, pi. xiv. ff. 1, 2, xvii. ft". 5, 6 (trachea) (1798) ; Pall. 



Zaogr. Bosso-As. ii. p. 258 (Caspian Coasts) (1811) ; Vieill. N. I). 



V. p. 129 (181G) ; Bum. Diet. Sc. Nat. vi. p. 350 (1817) ; TFied, 



Beise Bras. i. pp.51, 163, 206, 262, 326, 327 (1820); Licht. Verz. 



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