108 ANATID^. 



Dress. Ibis, 1876, p. 418 ; David ^ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 493 



(1877) ; Prjev. in Bmoley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 97 (1878) ; ? Finsch, 



Verh. k. z.-h. Ges. Wien, 1879, p. 258 (W. Siberia) ; Sclat. P. Z. 8. 



1880, p. 501, n. 14 ; id. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 418, n. 953 



(1883) ; Seebh. Ibis, 1884, p. 32 (Yokohama) ; Severtz. Zeitschr. 



ges. Orn. 1887, p. 22 ; Seebh. B. Jap. JEmp. p. 285 { 1890) ; Shai-pe, 



Cat. Osteol. Specim. Coll. Surff. iii. p. 292 (1891) ; Brandt, J. f. 0. 



1891, p. 267. 

 Oie de Cruin^e, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 347 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. 



p. 72, pi. 3 (1783). 

 Chinese Goose, Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 447, n. 12 (1785). 

 Anas orientalis, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 503, n. 2/3 (1788). 

 Cygnus sinensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 22, pi. 40 (1824). 

 Cyp"uopsis cygnoides, Brandt, Bull. Ac. Petersb. 1836, i. p. 37 ; id. 



Descr. ^ Ic. An. Boss. Nov., Aves, fasc. i. p. 5 (1836) ; G. R. Gr. 



List Gen. B. p. 73 (1840) ; Bp. Cat. Met. TJcc. Eur. p. 59, n. 415 



(1842) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 166 (Chinese) ; Hartl. Si/.%t. 



Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 117 (1844) ; Bchnb. Syn. Av., Anseres, t. 105. 



ff. 249-50 (1845) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p.'lOl (1854) ; Bp. Compt. 



Rend, xliii. p. 648, n. 9 (1850) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 75, 



n. 10574 (1871); Sund. Met. nat. Av. disj). Tent. p. 145 (1872) ; 



Dyb. J. f. O. 1873, p. 108 (E. Siberia), 1874, p. 336 ; Tacz. Bull. 



Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. p. 43 (1877) ; Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. 3Ius. x. p. 136 



(Bering I.) (1887) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 460 (Corea). 

 Anser cvgnoides ferus, Temm. ^ Schleg. Faun. Japan., Aves, tab. 81 



(1850). 

 Cygnopsis ferus, Rchnh. Syn. Av. n. iv. Novit. Natatores, t. cccliii. 



f. 2773 {ex Faun. Jap.) (1850). 

 Cygnopsis guineensis, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. x (1852). 

 Cygnopsis cygnoides a. australis, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 648 



■(1856). 

 Anser (Cygnopsis) cygnoides, Schrenck, Vog. d. Am.-L. pp. 457-461, 



Taf. XV. (1860) ; Radde, Reise S. O.-Sibir. ii. p. 350 (1863). 

 Anser sinensis, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 234 ; Rchnw. Voq. d. Zool. 



Gcirt. p. 67 (1882). 

 Anser grandis, Finsch {nee Gm.), Ibis, 1877, p. 53. 

 Anser tuberculosus, Schuster, Gejied. Welt. 6 Jahrg. 1877, pp. 378- 



379. 

 Cycnopsis cycnoides, Hein. <^- Rchnw. Norn. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 342 



(1890). 



Hybrid. 

 Anas cygnoides hvbrida, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nut., Anseres, t. 1 10. 

 f. 983 (1845). 



Adult male. Eound the base of the })ill a rusty white band ; 

 upper part of the head and a band along the hind-ueciv dark brown, 

 cheeks and neck whitish ; a brown mark on the lower part of the 

 cheeks along the under mandible ; back and wings greyish brown, 

 with pale edgings to the feathers ; rump greyish brown ; longest 

 upper tail-coverts white ; breast huffish white, changing into white 

 on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; the feathers of the breast 

 with narrow rusty edges : flanks brown, with pale edgings to the 

 feathers ; anterior upper wing-coverts, base of the primaries, and 

 under wing-coverts grey ; tail brown-grey, with the feathers broadly 

 tipped and edged with white : bill black : feet orange ; irides 



