262 anatidj:. 



Adult male. Head and upper part of the neck greyish brown, 

 thickly barred with narrow blackish bands ; mantle and anterior 

 scapulars greyish brown, with a black spot near the tip, and 

 margined with rufescent brown : lower back, wings, and upper tail- 

 coverts uniform greyish brown ; breast and underparts whitish, 

 the former more or less tinged with reddish, each feather has a 

 subterminal black spot and a blackish bar hidden and almost obsolete ; 

 the spots almost evanescent on the abdomen ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts whitish grey, unspotted ; upper wing-coverts brown-grey, 

 the tips of the greater row hazel, forming a band bordering an- 

 teriorly the wing-speculum, which is velvety black, only on the 

 outer web of the inner feathers being glossed with green ; tips of 

 the secondaries rufous white, forming a band ; tertials and longer 

 scapulars greyish brown, edged with reddish ; primaries dusky 

 grey ; under wing-coverts brown-grey, but the central ones and the 

 axillaries white ; tail brown-grey : " bill wax-yellow, with the 

 culmeu and nail black ; iris carmine (or wood-brown, Dvrnford) ; 

 feet grey-blue" {Philippi). Total length 15 to IG inches, wing 8 

 to 8"25, tail -i'To to 4-25, culmen 1-4, tarsus 1-12. 



Female. (Similar, but somewhat duller and smaller. 



Young. Duller, and the markings on the head and breast not so 

 distinct, especially on the latter. (Mus. Turin.) 



Bab. Southern Brazil, Argentine, Chili, Patagonia, and Falklands, 



a. c? ad. sk. Chili, March ( Weisskaupt). Salvin-Godman ColL 



d. Ad. sk. Chili (Eeed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. 2 iuv. sk. Chili. H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. Imm. sk. Central Chili. H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 



e. (S ad. sk. Port Gallant, W . coast of Dr. Coppinger [C.]. 



Patagonia, Feb. 

 /. Imm. st. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.]. 



ff, 2 ad. sk. Cockle Cove, Straits of Dr. Coppinger [0.]. 



Magellan, Oct. 

 h. $ ad. sk. St. Martin's Cove, Hermit Antarctic Exp. [C.]. 



Is., Oct. 

 /. c? ad. sk. St. Martin's Cove, Hennit McCormick Bequest. 



Is., Sept. 

 A. /. d 2 ad. sk. Falkland Is. Antarctic Exp. [CI. 



m. Ad. .«k. S. Salvador Bay, C. Falk- Antarctic Exp. [C.]. 



lands, July. 

 n. c? ad. sk. Conchitas, Buenos A vres, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Nov. (W.I£. Hudson). 



10. Nettion oxypterum. 



Anas oxyptera, Meyen, Nov. Act. xvi. Suppl. p. 121, t. 26 (Southern 



Peru) (18.33) ; Tsch. Arch. f. Nntunj. 1844, i. p. 315. 

 Querquedula creccoides, part., G. R. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. p. 138 



(1844); id. Ge7i. B. iii. p. 616, n. 3 (part.) (1845): Bp. Compt. 



Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. 104 (part.) (1856). 

 Cyanopterus (?) oxypterus, Hartl. Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 119 (Peru) 



(1844). 



