24. CHENALOPEX. 



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ILihrids. 

 Tadorna .negyptiacaX Anas bosclias, Leverk. J.f. O. 1890, p. 221. 



Adult male. Feathers round the base of the bill, a patch rouTid 

 tlie eyes, back of the neck, and ring round lower part of the latter 

 rudd}' ; rest of the head and upper part of the neck greyish brown ; 

 mantle ruddy grey, finely lineated with dark grey ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts black ; lower neck, breast, and flanks 

 buff, finely lineated with grey ; on the middle of the breast a maroon 

 patch ; abdomen white ; under tail-coverts rudd)- ; scapulars aud 

 tertiaries ruddy ; upper wing-coverts white, with a narrow black 

 band near the tip of the greater ones ; secondaries shining green ; 

 primaries, their coverts, bastard-wing, and tail black ; inner under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white : " iris dark yellow ; bill pink, 

 with tip, margins, and base black; tarsi and feet pink" (Ayres). 

 Total length 2S inches, wing 10, tail 9, bill 1*78, tarsus 3. 



Female. Similar to the male, but smaller, and, according to 

 Dr. Finsch, paler, and with the pectoral maroon patch smaller. 



Hab. Africa and Palestine. 



a. Pull. St. 



b. Ad. St. 



c. 5 ad. St. 



d. Ad. St. 



e. Ad. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. 



(/. ^ ad. sk. 

 ■/(. 2 ad. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. 



k, I, m. 2 ad. sk. 



w, o. (5 ad. sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 



[Bred in captivity.] 

 Ochtertire, Stirlingshire. 

 River Tweed, April 4. 

 liiver Tweed. 

 Egypt. 



Egypt. 



Egypt. 



Anseba Valley, Bogos, July o. 



Waliko, July 25 ( W. Jesse). 

 Maragaz, July 28 ( W. Jesse). 



Efat. Shoa, April (Sir W. C. 



Harris). 

 Lake Naiwascha. 



.\d. sk. Zambesi {/Jr. Urads/tciic). 



Juv. St. South Africa. 



t. (5 2 ad. sk. Humbe, K. Cunene, Jan. 



(Anc/iicfa). 

 -z. Ad. et juv. sk. River Niger, Dec. 

 , Skeleton. 

 . Skeleton. 

 , d'. Sterna and scapular girdles. 



II)/hrid hdiveen " Penguin Uuck " and C, 

 6 ad. st. Died in captivity. 



A. D. Bartlett, Esq. 

 Sir D. Dundas [P.]. 



Purchased. 



W. B. T. TurubuU, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 "\ ictor Ames, Esq. 



[P.J. 

 Hume Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 H. E. Dresser, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 India Museum. 



A. G. Baxter, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Old Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Dr. Baikie [C.]. 

 Zoological Society. 



ajgyptiacus. 

 Zoological Society. 



2. Chenalopex jubatus. 



Anser jubatus, Spi.r, Av. Bras. ii. ]). S4. t. 108 (1825^ (nee Anas 

 jubata, Ldth. 1801) ; Biirm. Syst. Uehers. iii. p. 433 (1856). 



