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plumage lighter brown, the underparts pale dull brown, with the 

 edges of the feathers whitish. 



Hah. Northern India, from Punjab to Nepal, and Independent 

 Burmah, south to Madras, but Eehar and the rest of Bengal, north 

 of the Ganges and west of the Brahmaputra, are its headquarters 

 {Hume). 



a. Ad. St. N. India. Colonel Cobb [C.]. 



b. Juv. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



c. Ad. st. Bootan. India Museum [P.l. 



d. Ad. St. Bootan {Pemberlon). India Museum [P.]. 



e. Juv. sk. Purneah Distr. (Fayrer). H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Calcutta, March. Hume Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Calcutta, Jau. (,/. Anderson). H. J. Elwes. Esq. 



[P.]. 

 h. Imm. sk. Madras. Hume Coll. 



i. Juv. sk. No locality {BIyth). India Museum [P.]. 



A. Imperfect skele- Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



ton (with portion [P.]. 



of the tracnea). 



10. PTERONETTA. 



Type. 

 Pteronetta, Salcad. MS. P. hmtlaubi. 



Plumage plain with no mottlings, and no metallic speculum as in 

 AscD-cornis, but the frontal feathers in a straight line, the lateral 

 frontal ridges of the bill not extending backwards through the 

 feathers of the forehead ; tail graduated, but somewhat shorter. 

 Sexes similar. 



Bange. Confined to Equatorial Africa. 



1. Pteronetta hartlaubi. 



Anas cyanoptera, Temm. {nee VieiU.) in Mns. Lwjd. (Rio Boutry, 



Tel) ; Kartl J.f. O. 1855, p. 357. 

 Pterocyanea cyanoptera, Bp. Co7njjt. Bend. xhii. p. 659, n. 92 (1856) ; 



IJyt. Syn. Anat. p. 87 (1869). 

 Querquedula cyanoptera, Hartl. {nee Vieill.) Orn. West-Afr. p. 248 



(1857). 

 Querquedula hartlaubi, Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 175 (Camma 



and Ogobai); Seine, J.f. 0. 1860, p. 203; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, 



iii. p. 83, n. 10660 (1871) ; Sharpe S,- Bow. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. 



p. 314 (Louemba, Chissambo) (1876) ; Sdat. P. Z. S. 1880, n. 522 ; 



Boc. Orn. Any. p. 503 (1881) ; Shell. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 50 (Tingasi, 



Equat. Afr.) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 49 (1889) ; Biittik. Eeisebild. 



aus Liber, p. , n. 230 (1890). 

 Anas euprea, Schley. Mas. P.-B. Anseres, p. 62 (Gold Coast, Guinea, 



Gaboon) (1866) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 349 (1872). 

 Querquedula (Pterocyanea) hartlaubi, Oust. Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) 



ii. p. 122, pi. 6 (Ogo6u6) (1879). 



Adult male. Head and upper part of neck black ; a white square 

 patch on the frontal edge; rest of the plumage bright chestnut, 



