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2. Sarcidiornis carunculata. 



Ipecati-apoa, Marcqr. Hist. Nat. Bras. Cap. xv. p. 217 ; Licht. Ahh. 



Ak. Berl. 1816-17, p. 175. 

 Pato crestudo, D'Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 417, n. 428 (1805) ; id. Voy. 



{Sonn. ed.) iv. p. ;J31 (1809). 

 Anas carunculata, IllUj. {nee Vieill.) 3fus. BeroL; Licht. Ahh. Ak. 



Berl. 181G-17, p. ifO (e.v UAzara). 

 Cairina ? regia, Steph. Gen, Zool. xii. 3, p. 82 (1824). 

 Pato de crista, Wied, Beitr. iii. p. 942 (l^razil) (1832). 

 Sarkidiornis reoius, part., Eyt. Mon. Anat. p. 102 (Ca)'enne !) 



(1838) ; id. Syn. Anat. p. 51 (1869). 

 Sarkidiornis regia, part., G. JR. Gr. List B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 126 



(1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 602, n. 1 (1845) ; HaHl. Ind. Azara, 



Apunt. p. 27, n. 428 (1847) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 319, 459, Iviii 



(Mattogi"osso and Barra de Eio Negro) (1870). 

 Sarcidiornis regia, Bp. Com2)t. Betid, xliii. p. 649, n. .39 (1856); 



Burm.J.f. O. 1860, p. 266 (Tucuman) ; id. La-Plata Reise, ii. 



p. 513 (1861); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 339; Philippi, P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 532 (not Cliilian) ; Bunn. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 365 (Tucu- 

 man) ; Bodinus, J.f. 0. 1878, p. 366 (Zool. Gard.), 1882, p. 21. 

 Anser melanotus, Burm. {nee Penn.) Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 434 (1856). 

 Sarcidiornis melanonota, Sclat. Sf Salv. Noniencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 129 



(Paraguay, Guiaua) (1873). 

 Sarcidiornis carunculata, Sclat. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 377 ; Sclat. 



ibid. p. 695, pi. Ixviii. (Maranham) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 511 ; 



Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 355; Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 35 ; 



id. J'off. d. Zool. Giirt. p. 61 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th 



ed. p. 427 (1883) ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 124 ; Sclat. Argent. Orn. 



ii. p. 128 (1889). 



Adult. Yery similar to S. melanonota, from -which it differs princi- 

 pally in having the sides and flanks broadly brown-black, and the 

 rump with no grey colour, but, like the rest of the back, black, 

 glossed with green. The glossy-black crescent-like band on the 

 sides of the breast is not conspicuous, being confluent with the 

 black of the sides ; the under tail-coverts are white, and not 

 gamboge-yellow as in Mr. Sclater's plate ! Total length about 24 

 inches, wing 14-8, tail 5, culmen 2-3, tarsus 2-6. 



Female. " Much smaller than the male, and has no wattle (or 

 comb) at aU on the head " {Forbes). 



Mr. Sclater was mistaken in believing the female to be similar 

 to the male, as was pointed out by Mr. Forbes, who adds that " the 

 female has little, if any, more black on the flanks than a female of 

 S. melanonota." 



Hob. Brazil, Paraguay, and iS^orthern Argentina. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Maranham {Zool. Soc). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. ASARCORNIS. 



Type. 

 Asarcorrds, Salvad. MS. V. scutulata. 



Allied to the genus Sarcidiornis, with which it agrees in the 

 general shape, in the indentations of the bill, in the wedge-shaped 



