27. ANAS. 215 



fi, i. (S (id.et ad. Potr-liefstroom. March, April J. 11. Gurnev, Esq. 



sk. _ (Ai/res). ' [P.]. 



k, I. Ad. et juv. Zomba, Nyassa-land, Oct. {A. Sir H. H. Johnston, 



sk. Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



16. Anas specularis. 



Anas specularis, Kinr/, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 98 (Straits of Masellsn) 



(1828) : Eyt. Mon. Anat. p. 138 (183S) ; Jard. S^ Selb. III. Oin. 



iv. pi. 40 (1840) ; Hartl.Verz. Ges. Mm. p. 119 (1844) ; G. E. Gr. 



List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 13(3 (1844); iil. Gen. B. iii. p. 615, n. 3 



(1845); Des Murs, in Gay's HL4. (h Chile, i. p. 450 (1848); 



Hchnh. Sijn. Av., Natatores, t. 94. f. 2349 {ex J. Sf S.) (1850) ; 



Hartl. Naumantiia, 18.53, pp. 217, 222 (Chili); Cass. U.S. Astron. 



Kiped., Zool. p. 202 (1856); Peh. JReise Xovara, Vny. p. 138 



(Chili) (18(i5) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 335 (Chili) ; Phil. S; Landb. 



Cat. Av. Chil. p. 42 (1868) ; Eyt. Si/n. Anat. p. 95 (svn. emend.) 



(1869) ; Sclat. .y Sah. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 380; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, 



p. .519, 1881, p. 734 (Zool. Gard.); Pcfmio. Orn. Ceiitralbl. 1882, 



p. 19; id. T'off. zool. Gtirt. p. 51; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 



p. 432 (1883) ; Bunn. An. Mus. Kac. Biien. Air. iii. p. 248 (1888); 



Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 49 (1889) ; Hartert, Eat. Voqehamml. 



p. 230 (1891) ; Berkeley James, New List Chil. B. p. 9, n. 150 



(1892). 

 Anas chalcoptera, Kittl. Mem. prSs. Acad. St. Petersh. ii. p. 47 1 , 



pi. 5 (1835) ; Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 119 (Colchagua) : Echnh. 



Syn. Av., Natatores, t. 100. ff. 2766-67 ( 1850) ; Licht. Komencl. 



Av. p. 101 (18-54); Bp. Covtpt. Rend, xliii. p. 649, n. 74 (18.56) ; 



Schley. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 46 (Bolivia) (1866); G. B. Gr. 



Hand-list, iii. p. 82, n. 10650 (1871); Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 347 



(1872) ; Selat. %• Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 129 (1873). 



Adult male. Head and neck brown, but a large spot on the sides 

 of the face, chin, and middle of the throat white, spreading on the 

 sides of the neck ; back glossy brown-black, with the edges of the 

 feathers pale brown ; lower back uniform glossy brown-black, 

 changing into olive-brown on the upper tail-coverts ; underparts 

 pale rufescent, more or less with obsolete brown bars or transverse 

 spots ; sides and tlanks with brown-black spots ; wings black with 

 a green lustre : speculum on the secondaries coppery red, bounded 

 posteriorly by a subtermiual velvety black band and by a white 

 apical band ; under wing-covcrts glossy black, the greater ones dark 

 grey ; axillaries white ; tail above brown-black, with a green lustre, 

 below greyish brown: "bill black; legs red" (King); "legs 

 yellow " (Sclater cj- Salvin). Total length about 21 inches, wing 

 10'5, tail 4-8, culmen 1-9, tarsus 1-6.). 



Female. Similar to the male, but duller. 



Younr/ in down. Upper parts brown ; underparts, sides of the 

 head, a band on the posterior edge of the wing, joining another on 

 the sides of the back, and a spot on each side of the rump whitish ; 

 a brown band from the eye to the occiput, and a second one across 

 the cheeks {M}is. Turin). 



Hah. Central and Southern Chili, (Bolivia?), and Magellan 

 Straits. 



