28. EUNETTA. 219 



Vosf. Sibir. p. 69 (1877) : id. Bull. Soc. Znol. Fr. ii. p. 4o (1877) ; 



Blakist. ^ Fryer, Ibk, 1878, p. :^14 (Japan) ; Anders. Yiain. Exped. 



ii. Birds, p. 701 (1878) ; Ihime, Sir. Feath. vii. p. 494 (Calcutta 



market) (1879), viii. p. 115, n. 966 bis, p. 411 (India) (1879); 



8clat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 521 ; Hume ^- Marsh. Game B. of Ind. iii. 



p. 2;]l,pl. 30 (1880); Blakist. S,- Fryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap. viii. 



p. 105 (1880), X. p. 98 (1882) ; Bolaii, J.f. O. 1882, p. 340 ; Tacz. 



Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. viii. p. 3-43 (Kamtscliatka) (1883j ; Sclat. List 



T er^. ^w. 8th ed. p. 434 (1883); Blakist. Amend. List B. Jap. 



p. 9 (1884) ; Madar. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 38 (Hungary) 



(1884) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 49^1889) ; S/iarpe, Tr. Li?in. Soc. 



(2) Zwl. V. p. 91 (1889) ; id. Cat. Osteol. Specim. Coll. Siiry. 



iii. p. 301 (1891). 

 Querquedula javana, G. E. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 616, n. 5 (1845). 

 Qiierqiiedula drepanopteros, Bp. Bev. Crit. p. 103 (1850). 

 Qiierquedula javanensis, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. 96 (1850) ; 



Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 74 (1869). 

 Eunetta falcata, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. 108 (1856) ; 



Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 419; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 84, 



n. 10671 (1871) ; Simdev. Meth. nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 147 (1872) ; 



Sioinh. Ibis, 1873, p. 368, 1874, p. 164 (Hakodadi) : Heuyl. J.f. O. 



1874, p. 462 ; Favid ^V Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 504 (1877); Prjer. in 



Rou'l. Orn. 3lisc. iii. p. 104 (Monfjolia) (1878) ; Seehk. Ibii 1884, 



p. 270 (C. China) ; Sfejn. Nature??, 1884, p. 9 ; id. Bull. U.S. Nat. 



AIus. n. 29, p. 156 (Bering I.) (1885); id. Fr. U.S. Nat. Mm. x. 



p. 136 (Bering I.) (1887) ; Giyl. ^- Salvad. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 591 ; 



Salcad. ^- Gii/l. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xxxix. p. 118 (1888) ; 



Styan, Fns, 1891, pp. 328, 497 ; Schul. J.f. O. 1891, p. 268 ; Be la 



Touche, ibis, 1892, p. 492. 

 Mareoa falcata, Cass. Kvp. Atn. Srptadr. China Seas and Jap. ii. p. 231 



(1856) ; id. J.f. O. 1858, p. 448. 

 Querqiiediila multicolor, Swinli. (nee Scop.) Rjis, 1860, p. 67 (Amoy). 

 Auas (Querquedula) falcata, Schre»k, T'og. Am.-Land, p. 476 (1860) ; 



Radde, Reis. S. O.-Sibir. ii. p. 369 (18tj3) : Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 



1882, p. 20; id. Viiy. znol. Giirt. p. 54 (1882). 

 Nettion falcatum, Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 71 (1883). 



Adult nude. Crown deep chestnut ; sides of the head bronze- 

 purple, greener posteriorly ; a long green mane on the back of the 

 nape ; throat and upper part of the neck white, intersected below 

 by a green collar ; mantle and upper scapuhirs with narrow 

 crescentic bands grey and blackish ; rump blackish ; basal uj)per 

 tail-coverts grey, verraiculated with black, the longer ones black 

 and entirely hiding the tail ; upper breast waved with alternate 

 cresci'iitic bars of black and white, producing a regular scaly 

 appearance ; lower breast wliitish, each feather with black bars, 

 one of which is subterminal ; sides, Hanks, and abdomen waved 

 with narrow black and greyish bands; under t;iil-coverts black, 

 very long, and reaching beyond the tail ; on each side of the 

 under tail-coverts a very distinct buff patch, the bases of the 

 feathers being black, showing a beautiful black bar, which separates 

 the butfy patch from another silky white band formed by the tip of 

 lowest Hank-feathers ; scapulars grey, narrowly waved with black, 

 and more or less distinctly whitish on the edges ; a black patch on 

 the outer scapulars ; wing-coverts grey, the last row whitish ; 



