254 



Total length about 16 inches, wing 7*5, tail 3'5, culmen 1'4, 

 tarsus I'S. 



Young in down. Upper parts brown, the upper part of the head 

 darker ; sides of the head, fore-neck, and lower parts whitish, with 

 a rufescent tinge ; <i dark brown band from the lores, through the 

 eyes backwards ; a small dark spot at the gape ; two whitish- 

 rufescent spots on the back, at the base of the wings, and two more 

 on the sides of the rump. 



Hah. Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia (?), and as a 

 straggler in Celebes and Java. 



a. cJ ad. St. 



b. iS ad. sk. 



c. d. S ad. sk. 

 e. (S ad. sk. 



/. ? 2 imm. sk. 

 g. ? ^ imm. sk. 

 h, I <S ad. et ? 5 



ad. st. 

 k. J ad. ? sk. 



/. S imm. sk. 

 m. (S imm. ? sk. 



n, o. (S ad. et ? 2 



ad. sk. 

 2). ? 9 ad. sk. 

 q. Pull. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 



s,t. ? 2 ad. St. 

 ic. (S ad. sk. 



V. 2 ad. sk. 



w, X. (S 2 ad. sk. 



y. 2 ad. ? sk. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Austraha. 



Sydney ? 



Port Essington. 



N. Australia. 



New S. Wales. 



N.W. Australia. 



N.W. Australia, April. 

 Perth Flats, W. Australia, 



May. 

 S. Australia. 



S. Australia. 



Australia. 



Flinders I., Bass' Straits, Jan. 



(F. M. Mai/ner). 

 Tasmania. 

 Keclierche Bay, Tasmania, 



Dec. 

 R. Derwent, Tasmania, Nov. 

 Port Arthur, Tasmania, Oct. 

 Otago, New Zealand, May. 



Hardwicke Bequest. 

 Purchased. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Sibbald [P.]. 

 Australian Museum 



Capt. Bowyer Bower 



[P.]. 

 J.R.Elsey,Esq.[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



Gould Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Voyage of H.M.S. 



'Alert' [C.]. 

 R. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 

 Gould CoU. 



Gould Coll. 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 



5. Nettion gibberifrons. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Anas (Mareca) gibberifrons, S. Mull. Verh. Land- en Volketik. p. 159 



(Celebes) (1839-44). 

 Mareca gibberifrons, G. M. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 614, n. 5 (1845) ; 



Wald. Tv. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 102 (1872) ; Meijer, Ibis, 1879, p. 144 ; 



Wald. Ticeedd. Orn. Works, p. 201 (1881). 

 Querquedula gibberifrons, B2). ComjJt. Bend, xliii. p. 650, n. 102 



Ibis, 1878, p. 266 (New Caledonia) ; Hutt.. Trans. N. Z. Inst. xii. 

 p. 271 (1880) ; Ibis, 1881, p. 162; Milne-Ediv. Ann. Sc. Nat., Zool. 

 (6) xiii. Art. 4, p. 41 (1882) ; Vorderm. N. T. N. I. xlvi. p. 90 

 (Java), p. 240 (1886) ; Smith, Trans. N. Z. List. xxi. p. 221 (Lake 

 Brunner) (1888) ; Cab. J. f. O. 1888, p. 118 ; Vorderm. N. T. 

 A'. J. xlix.p.419(1889). 

 ? Anas punctata, var., G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 166 (New Caledonia) ; 



