23. DENDROCYCNA. 165 



feather with a white spot at the tip ; lower breast and abdomen 

 whitish, with faint dusky lines across ; feathers of the flanks 

 with large white round spots, the longer feathers are almost barred 

 with black : under tail-covcrts whitish, with black bars : quills 

 brown ; tail almost black : " bill black ; tarsi and feet ashy, more 

 or less tinged with reddish ; irides brown or chestnut " {U Alhertis). 

 Total length about 17 inches, wing 8-5, tail 2-0, culmen 1-63, 

 tarsus 1"02. 



Female. Similar. 



Younc/. Feathers of the flanks paler and with the white spots 

 elongated and lanceolated (Schlegel). 



Hah. Mindanao, Celebes, Moluccas, and New Guinea. 



n. Ad. St. [Sumatra.] Purchased. 



b. 2 ad. St. Celebes. Wallace Coll. I 



c. cJ ad. sk. Bouru. Wallace Coll. \ 



(Types of Wallace's description.) 



d. S ad. sk. Larat, Teuimber Islands, Aug. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



9. Dendrocycna eytoni. 



Leptotarsis eytoni, Gould, MSS. ; Eyt. Mon. Anat. p. Ill (18-38) ; 



Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 1.5 (pt. xx., 184.5) ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 



p. 649, n. 59 (1856) ; Fek. Novara Reise, Voqel, p. 137 (1865) ; 



Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 63 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. mind-Ust, iii. p. 80, 



n. 10617 (1871). 

 Dendrocygiia eytoni, G. R. Gr. List B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 1-32 



(1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 612, n. 7 (1845) ; Rchnh. Si/>i. Av., 



Natatores, t. 99. flf. 2357-58 {e.v Gould) (1850) ; Stanl. Sale-list 



Enoivsley Men. p. 45 (1851) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 301 ; Gould, 



Haridb. B. Austr. ii. p. 375 (1865) ; Schleq. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 



p. 87 (1866) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 686 (Zool. Gard.) ; Diggl. B. 



Austr. ii. pi. 144. f. 1 (1870) ; Hutt. Cat. B. New Zeal. pp. 35, 77 



(1871): Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 184; Purdie, Tr. N. Z. Inst. 



1872, p. 213 (New Zealand) ; Hector, ibid., note ; Buller, Hist. B. 



Neio Zeal. pp. xxi, 265 (1873) ; Finsch, J.f. 0. 1874, p. 201 ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. ii. p. 31 ('1875) ; Sharpe, Zool. Ereb. ^- Terr., Birds, 



App. p. 31 (1875) ; Casteln. :^- Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. 



p. :]S6 (Norman lUver, Gulf of Carpentaria) (1877) ; Rc/imv. Orn. 



Centralbl. 1882, p. 23 ; Buller, Man. B. New Zeal. p. 67 (1882) ; 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 427 (1883) ; Leqqe. Pr. R. Soc. 



Ta.<m. 1886, p. 244 (Tasmania) (1887) ; B?dler.' Hist. B. Neio 



Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 2(38 (1888) ; North, Cat. Nests S,- Eqys Austr. 



B. ]). 340 (1889) ; Harfert, Kat. Voyelsamml. p. 229(1891) ; S/iarpe, 



Cat. Osteol. Specim. Coll. Surg. iii. p. 297 (1891). 

 Dendnicvgna versicolor, Hartl. Erst. Nachtr. Voyelsamml. p. 19, 



n. 220" (1846) (descr. nulla). 

 Dendrocygiia arcuata, Bennett {nee Cuv.), in Sclat. P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 140 (Sydney). 

 Dendrocvgna (Leptotarsis) evtoni, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 418; 



Ram<'. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S.' TV. i. p. 195 (1876), id. ibid. ii. p. 200, 



n. ii-V, (1877) : id. Tab. List, p. 22, n. ()(56 (1888). 

 Dendrocvcna evtoni, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 510: Rchnw. Voy. d. 



zool. Glirt. p." .59 (1882); Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 50 (1869). 



