260 ANATID^. 



Gen. B. iii. p. 614, n. 6 (1840) ; Layard, Birds S. Afr. p. 351 

 (1867); id. Ibis, 1869, p. 26; Ay res, Ibis, 1869, p. 302 (Trans- 

 vaal) ; Gum. in Anderss. B. Damara Land, p. 339 (1872). 



Chauliodus capensis, Siv. Journ. Roy. Inst. ii. p. 19 (1831). 



Anas larvata, Cuv. MS. Mus. Paris (Cape) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 634, 

 n. 72 (1831 ) (descr. nulla) ; PucJier. Rev. et Maq. de Zool. 1850,. 

 p. 549 (descr.) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 419 ; Bocage, J. f. O. 

 1876, p. 294. 



Querquedula capensis. Smith, Cat. S.Afr. Mus. p. 37, n. 326 (1837) ; 

 Eyt. Mo7i. Anat. p. 128 (1838) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 616, n. 15 

 (1845) ; Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 82 (1869) ; Bocage, Orn. Ang. p. 502 

 (1881) ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 174 ; id. Aim. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) 

 i. p. 245 (1884) ; Sharpe, Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 758 (1884) ; Tristr. 

 Cat. Coll. B. p. 48 (1889). 



Psecilonetta georgica, G. R. Gr. {nee Gm.) List B. Brit. Mus. iii. 

 p. 134 (Cape of Good Hope) (1844). 



Anas assimilis, Forst. Icon. ined. t. 75 ; id. Descr. Anim. {ed. Licht.) 

 p. 46 (1844) ; Sc/ileg. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 59 (svn. emend.) 

 (1866) ; Gieb. T/ies. Orn. i. p. 344 (syn. emend.) (1872) ; Hartl. 

 Yog. Madag. pp. 364, 365 (1877). 



Chaulelasmus strepera, a. capensis, Bj). Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 650' 

 (1856). 



Querquedula larvata, Bp.Comiit. Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. 99 (syn. emend.) 

 (1856) ; Bocage, Jorn. Ac. Sc. Lisb. 1871, p. 278, 1872, p. 70. 



Anas sparsa?, Bohm {iiec Smith), J.f. O. 1885, p. 62. 



Adult male. Head, neck, and underparts whitisli ; head and neck 

 dotted or streaked with black ; throat immaculate ; feathers of the 

 back and rump and upper tail-coverts edged and barred with fulvous, 

 each feather has one or moro brown-black bars and a subterminal 

 spot of the same colour ; upper breast with brown bars ; remainder 

 of the underparts with obsolete greyish-brown spots, better defined 

 and bar-like on the sides and under tail-coverts ; wings dark grej' ; 

 the greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a white 

 bar anteriorly to the glossy green speculum on the secondaries, 

 which are broadly tipped with white and have a subterminal narrow 

 black band bordering the speculum posteriorly ; anterior second- 

 aries entirely white ; scapulars greyish brown, edged with fulvous ; 

 under wing-coverts greyish brown, with pale edges ; tail-feathers 

 grey, edged with whitish : bill crimson-red, with the base of the 

 culmen black, and also the base and edge of upper mandible and the 

 base of the lower one ; feet ochreous fuscous ; irides yellow. Total 

 length about 15'5 inches, wing 8, tail 2'9, culmen 1-6, tarsus 1'6. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hah. Southern Africa, northward to Angola on the West and 

 Shoa on the East. 



a. Ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. Sh A. Smith [P.]. 



b. Juv. St. Cape of Good Hope. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope, Eyton Coll. 



d. 5 juv. sk. Walvich Bay, Nov. H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[Andersson). [?•]• 



e. ^ ad. sk. Mossamedes, Angola, Shelley Coll. 



March {Anchieta). 



f. 2 8-d. sk. Rio Coroca, Angola, Shelley Coll. 



Jan. [Anchieta). 



