214 ANATID.^. 



979 (1845); Gum. Ibis, 1859, p. 251 (Natal); Heugl. J. f. O. 



1862, p. 306; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 336 (Zambesi); Layayd,'B. S. 



Afr. p. 352 (1867) ; Chapm. Trav. in S. Afr. ii. App. p. 422 (1868) ; 



Jleuffl. Heise nach Abess. 1861-62, pp. 296, 308 (1868) ; id. Peterm. 



Geogr. Mitth. 1869, p. 417 ; Ei)t. Syn. Anat. p. 99 (1869) ; Finsch 



ii- Hartl. Vbq. Osf-Afr. p. 809 (1870) ; G. M. Gr. Hand-lkt, iii. 



p. 82, n. 10642 (1871) ; Anderss. B. Bamara Land,^. 341 (1872) ; 



Hpmil. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii, 2, p. 1317 (1873); Ay res, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 105 (Transvaal), 1876, p. 433, 1^80, p. 273 (Transvaal) ; Sclnt. 



P. Z. S. 1880, p. 518; Rchnw. Orn. Centralhl. 1882, p. 19; Butl., 



Feild., ^ Reid, Zoolog. 1882, p. 427 (Natal) (1882) ; Koluh, Beitr. 



Orn. Sildafr. p. 330 (1882); Hharpe, Bayard's B. 8. Afr. p. 756 



(1884); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 244 (Shoa) (1884), 



vi. p. 321 (Shoa) (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coil. B. p. 49 (1889) ; 



Hartert, Kat. Voyehamml. p. 230 (1891); Shell. Ibis, 1894, p. 28 



(Zomba) ; Echmv. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 26 (1894). 

 Anas fiavirostris, G. It. Gr. (nee Smith), List B. Brit. Mus. iii. 



p. 137, spec, a (1844). 

 Anas leucostigma, Biipp. Sysf. Uebers. pp. 130, 138, Taf. 48 



(S.Abyssinia) (1845); Des Miirs in Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss., Ois. 



p. 171 (1845); Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 265 (1855); Heuyl. 



Syst. Uebers. n. 695 (1856); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 176; Cab. in 



V. d. Decken, Reisen, iii. p. 51 (1869). 

 Anas guttata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 101 (CafTraria) 



( 1854) ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 649, n. 66 (1856) ; Jerd. B. of 



Ind. iii. p. 800 (1864) ; SMeg. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 49 (1866) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 353 (1872). 



Adult male. General plumage dark sepia-brown, the head and 

 upper neck lighter, having the feathers edged with whitish ; the 

 feathers of tho underparts with narrow pale edges ; scapulars and 

 tertials with one, two, or three whitish-buff bars, interrupted by 

 the shaft ; wing-speculum metallic green with a blue gloss, bounded 

 anteriorly by two bands on the last row of the wing-coverts, one 

 white subtermiual, and the other on the tip velvety black ; poste- 

 riorly the speculum is bounded by a black subterminal band and 

 a terminal one white ; under wing-coverts white, mixed with black ; 

 axillaries white ; tail-feathers, upper and under tail-coverts almost 

 black, with whitish bars, oblique on the tail-feathers : " irides dark 

 chestnut ; bill yellow on the edges and at the base, broadly black ou 

 the culmen and on the nail ; feet orange, webs black " (Antinori, 

 liac/azzi). Total length about 21 inches, wing 10-5, tail 5-5, culmeu 

 1-85, tarsus 1-55. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat smaller. 



Hah. Southern and Eastern Afi-ica, as far north as S. Abj'ssinia, 



a. Ad. St. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



b. Ad. st. Cape of Good Hope. Purchased. 



c. (S juv. sk. Grahamstown, Jan. (Atmore). Shelley Coll. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Natal (Ayres). Tweeddale Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Port Natal (Ayres). Shelley Coll. 



g. 2 juv. sk, Pietermaritzberg, May (T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley), 



