200 ANATID^. 



Adult. General colour reddish ; the feathers brown in the middle 

 and margined with reddish ; head and neck with narrow dusky 

 streaks, each feather margined with reddish ; feathers of the back 

 with some narrow irregular reddish bars ; speculum glossy green, 

 bounded anteriorly and posteriorly by two velvety-black bands, the 

 anterior one at the tip of the greater wing-coverts ; a narrow whitish 

 tand at the tip of the secondaries ; before the anterior black band 

 there is also a narrow dull reddish band ; tertials velvety brown, 

 darker on the outer web ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white : 

 " bill black (?); irides sienna-brown ; feet fleshy colour " (/SVZa<^r). 

 Total length about 21 inches, wing 10'6, tail 5, culmen 2-3, 

 tarsus 1-65. 



Female. Apparently similar to the male. 



Young. Has a redder tinge, almost rusty, on the edges of the 

 feathers of the lower parts. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a. Ad. st. Madagascar. P. L. Sclater, Esq., 



[P.]._ (Type of 

 .species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Madagascar {Deans Coii:a7i). Tweeddale CoU. 



c. Ad. sk. Madagascar (Deans Cov:an). Shelley Coll. 



d. Juv. sk. E. of Antananarivo, Mada- W. Deans Cowan, 



gascar. Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. C. Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 



J. Ad. sk. S.E. Madagascar. W. Deans Cowan, 



Esq. [C.]. 



5. Anas obscura. 



Dusky Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 564, n. 496 (1785) ; Lath. 

 Si/n. iii. 2, p. 545, n. 84 (1785). 



.Anas obscura, Gni. S. A", i. 2, p. 541, n. 115 (1788) ; Zaf/i. Ind. Orn. 

 ii. p. 871, n. 96 (1790) ; Bmin. Eric. Meth. i. p. 146 (1780) ; Wils. 

 Am. Orn. viii. p. 141, pi. 12. f. 5 (1814) : Vieill. N. D. v. .p. 131 

 (1816) ; Dum. Diet. Sc. Nut. vi. p. 386 (1817) ; Stej^h. Gen. Zool. 

 xii. 2, p. 104 (1824) ; lip. Obs. Wils. n. 260 (1825) ; id. Sijn. p. 234 

 (1828) ; B2). Comp. List, p. 56 (1838) ; Eijt. Mon. Anat. p. 140 

 (1838) ; And. Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 15, pi. .302 (1838) ; id. Syn. p. 276 

 (1839) ; id. B. Am. vi. p. 244, pi. 386 (1843) ; Hartl. Verz. Ges. 

 Mus. p. 119 (1844) ; Giraud, B. Long Isl. p. 301 (1844) ; De Kay, 

 N. Y. Zool. ii. p. 344 (1844) ; G. JR. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. 

 p. 135 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 615, n. 5 (1845) ; Echnb. .Syn. 

 Av. Nat. t. 85. f. 918 (1845), t. 100. ff. 2764-65 {e.v Aububon) 

 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 101 (1854) ; Bp. Compt. Rend. 

 xliii. p. 649, n. 72 (excl. svn.) (1856) ; Piitn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 

 p. 219 (1856) ; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 775 (part.) (1858) ; id. Cat. 

 B. N. Am. n. 577 (1859) ; Wheat. Ohio Agr. Pep. 1860, no. 241 ; 

 Coues 4" Prent. .Smiths. Pep. 1861, p. 417 (winter); Cones, Pr. Ac. 

 Philad. 1861, -p. 238 (Labrador, breeding); Verr. Pr. Ess. Inst. 

 iii. p. 154 (Maine, breeding) (1862); Boardm. Pr. Bust. Soc. ix. 

 p. 129 (Maine, resident) (1862) ; Blak. Ibis, 1863, p. 146 (Hudson 

 Bay) ; Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. p. 78 (Massachusetts, breeding) 

 (1864) ; Mclhcr. ibid. v. p. 94 (Canada West) (1866) ; Schleg. 

 Mns. P.-B., Anseres, p. 41 (1866) ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 



