238 A>'ATID^. 



Total length 20 inches, wing 10'6, tail 4-2, cnlmen 1-45, 

 tarsus l"o5. 



Female. Similar, but not so bright in colour. 



Young in down. Upper parts brown, with two white spots at the 

 base of the wings and two on the sides of the rump ; lower parts 

 white ; sides of the head bright rufous. 



Hah. Southern part of S. America, Chili, Paraguay, Argentine, 

 Patagonia, Falkland Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Chili. Eyton Coll. 



h. S ad. sk. Chili {E. C. Seed). Purchased, 



e. c? ad. sk. Prov. of Santiago, Chili Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 (Ley bold) . 



d. c? f»d. sk. Santiago. H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e. (S ad. sk. Rio Palmaiquen, March. II. Berkeley Jame.s, 



Esq. [P.].- 

 /. c? ad. sk. Lake Llauque, Nov. H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 a, h. Ad. et imm. Central Chili. 11. Berkeley James, 



sk. Esq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. St. I. of Chiloe. The Admiralty [P.! 



h. S ad. sk. Straits of Magellan. Voyage of H.M.S. 



' Challenger ' [P.]. 

 I. 2 juv. sk. Coquimbo, June. Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 



7n. Ad. sk. Falkland Is. {Leconte). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



n. Juv. sk. Falkland Is. Tweeddale Coll. 



o. 2 imm. sk. Falldaud Is., Nov. Antarctic Exp. [P.]. 



p. 2 imm. sk. Buenos Ayres, Jime {F. Sclater CoU. 



Withim/ton). 

 q. Ad. sk. Monte Video (Johnston). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



r. Pull. sk. Bred in confinement. H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 s. Pull. St. Bred in confinement. A. D. Bartlett, Esq. 



[P.]. 



31. NETTION. ,^ 



Type. 



Nettion, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 95 (1829) N. crecca. 



Querquedula, Eyton (nee Steph.), Mon. Anat. p. 37 



(1838) N. crecca. 



Virago, Neict. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 051 N. castaneum. 



Range. Cosmopolitan. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper wing-coverts dark grey or slate-gTey. 

 a' . Head entirely or partly metallic green. 

 a". Head partly metallic gi'een. 



a'". Top of the head black, cheeks whitish 

 butf,with a black band descending from 

 the eyes to the hind part of the throat: 

 female with a whitish round spot on 

 the anterior part of the cheeks, near 

 the base of the bill formosum, p. 240. 



