11. NETTOPDS. 67 



It. J ad. .«lv. Mad.ijrasrar. Tweeddnle Cnll. 



V. (S ad. sk. Madagascar. J)r. I!. Howdler 



Sharpe [P.]. 

 ir, .r. $ ad. et d Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 



inini. slf. 

 »/. Iinm. sk. Madagascar. G. F. Scott Elliot, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 =. cf ad. sk. Ceutral Madagascar. Seebohui Coll. 



a'. Skeleton. 



2. Nettopus pulchellus. 



Nettapiis pulchellus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 89 (N. .\ustralia) ; 

 id. B. Amtr. vii. pi. 4 (pt. vi., 1842) ; G. It. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 608, 

 n. 2 (1844) ; Rchtib. Sijn. Av. Natatores, t. 9(5. ff. 938, 939 (1844) 

 (e.v Gould) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. .'502, n. 1765 (1849) ; 

 Bp. Cumpt. Brnd. xliii. p. ()49, n. 62 (18.56) ; Eher/, P. Z. S. 1857, 

 p. 28 ; G. It. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, ]). 198 ; id. Cat. B. New Guin. p. 63 

 (1859) ; Finxch, XcK-Guiii. }). 183 (1865) ; Gould, Hand!). B. Austr. 

 ii. p. 357 (1865) ; Schleq. Mm. P.-B., Anseres, p. 97 (1866) (Ani- 

 boiua) ; Bams. P. Z. >S. 1868, p. 388 (Queensland) ; IJi/t. 'Si/n. Anat. 

 p. 37 (18159) ; Gieb. T/ies. Orn. ii. p. 101 (1875) ; Bam.t. Pr. Linn. 

 .Soc. N. S. M'. i. p]). 194, 386 (1876); DAIL Si/du. Mail, 1877, 

 p. 248; id Aim. Mu.$. Civ. Gen. x. p. 20 (1877): id. Ibi.<^, 1877, 

 p. 372 ; Ravu. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 346 ; id. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. IV. 

 ii. p. 200, n. 050 (1877) ; Ma.d. ibid. p. 276 ((1877) ; D'Alb. S,- 

 Salrad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 133 (1879) (Katau and Fly 

 Rivers) ; D'Alb. Ntoov. Guin. pp. 519, 588 (1880) ; Ler/ffe, B. of 

 Cei/l. p. 1067 (1880) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 52, 20() (Larat) ; 

 Fi'nscli, Vdf/. d. Siid$ee, p. 29 (1884) : Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 4:i4 ; 

 Bias. Zeitschr. qes. Orn. 18>^6, pp. 202, 209 (Celebes) ; Rams. Tab. 

 List, p. 22, n. 661 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 51 (1889) (Port 

 Moresby) ; Salrad. A(/f/. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 210 (1891). 



Anserella pulchella, G. R. Gr. Haiid-lisf, iii. p. 77, n. 10595 (1871) ; 

 Rckmo. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 22. 



Nettopus pulchellus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 505 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 400, u. 1 (1882) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 384 

 (1882). 



Adult male. Frontal edge, sides of tho head, throat, breast, and 

 abdomen white ; top of the head brown, banded with dark green 

 and pale brown : neck all round, back, scapulars, and upper wing- 

 coverts dark glossy green with a bluish tinge ; lower part of the 

 neck and sides with crescentic white and dark green bands, pro- 

 ducing a scale-like appearance ; upper tail-coverts dark glossy green, 

 irregularly banded, especially towards the base, with white ; quills 

 black ; secondaries broadly tipped with white, forming a white band 

 across the wing ; under wing-coverts black glossed with green ; tail 

 glossy black ; under tail-coverts black : bill black, with the nail (in 

 dry skins) pale : feet black ; " irides dark brown " (Forbes). Total 

 length about 1,'J"5 inches, wing ()-9, tail 3, culmen 0*98, tarsus 0-98. 



Female. Similar to the male, but has the top of the head uniform 

 brown-black ; sides of the head and throat white, speckled with 

 black ; a black band along the middle of the hind neck ; upper part 

 of the neck white, M'ith black ])ands, which lower down have a 

 crescent-like shape ; otherwise as in the male. 



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