264 ANATIDJE. 



the upper parts, with the interscapular feathers and scapulars less 

 reddish, having the pale edges narrower and more greyish ; blackish 

 spots on the breast larger than in i\^. OA-iipterum, but not so well- 

 defined as in N. flavirostre ; the upper part of the speculum bronze- 

 green ; the principal difference is in the bill, wholly dark, without 

 any yellow ; feet flesh-colour. Total length 16 to 17 inches, wing 9, 

 tail 3"5 to 4, eulmen 1"6G, tarsus I'o, 

 Hah. Andes of Ecuador and Venezuela. 



«. Ad. sk. Ecuador, between Eio Bamha Sclater Coll. 



and Mocha {Fraser). (Type of the species.) 



h. Ad. sk. Sical, Ecuador ( Villrif/07nez). Salvin-Godmaii Coll. 



c, d. Ad. et imm. llio Blanco, Ecuador (C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. Buckley). 



e,f. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(). (S juv. sk. Sierra Nevada of Merida, Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Venezuela (A. Goerin<j). 



12. Nettion georgicum. 



Georgia Duck, Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 478, n. 34 (178o) (Georgia Aus- 

 trali Americae) {ex Sir Joseph Banks's drawings). 



Anas georgica, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 516, n. 77 (1788) ; Lath. Lid. Orn. 

 ii. p. 847, n. 41 (1790) ; Bon7i. Enc. Meth. i. p. 148 (1791) ; Vieill. 

 N. D. V. p. 118 (1816) ; Dum. Did. Sc. Nat. vi. p. 381 (1817) ; 

 G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 616, n. 8(1845) ( = xanthorhyncha, Jbrsf. 

 Lc. 71) ; id. Hand-list, iii. p. 82, n. 10652 (1871). 



Tadorna georgica, Stejjh. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 76 (1824). 



Anas xanthorhvncha, Forst. Icon. ined. t. 71 (nee t. 72) ; id. Descr. 

 An. (ed. Lickt.) p. 342, n. 257 (nee p. 45) (1844) (Georgia Aus- 

 trali) ; Licht. ibid, note ( = Anas oxyptera, Licht. {nee Meyen), 

 which is =A. flavirostris, Vieill.), cf. Nomend. Av. p. 102 (Monte- 

 video). 



Quercpiedula xanthorhvncha ?, Bp. Co7npt. Bend, xliii. p. 650 (1856). 



Anas obscura, part., Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 650, n. 72 (1856). 



Querquedula eatoni. Cab. {nee Sharpe) J. f. 0. 1884, p. 254 (S. 

 Georgia) ; Par/e^ist. Jahrb. d. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anst. ii. p. 8, 

 n. 4 (part.), p'. 13 (1885) ; v. d. Steinen, Intern. Polarforsch. 1882- 

 83, Deutseh. E.iped. ii. p. 273 (1890). 



Querquedula antarctica, Cab. J.f. O. 1888, p. 118, 1. 1 (S. Georgia) ; 

 Schal. J.f. O. 1891, p. 18. 



Very similar to N. flavirostre, but the speculum entirely black, 

 with no longitudinal metallic-green band on the upper part. 



I have had no opportunity of examining a specimen of this Teal, 

 but, judging from Cabanis's plate and short description, it appears 

 that it belongs to the group cor\iB.\VL\n^ N. flavirostre, N. oxjipteriim, 

 and N. andium, and difl'ers from all in wanting the green band on 

 the speculum. I have compared Cabanis's plate with Forster's 

 Icon. ined. no. 71, and I believe them to represent the same bird. 

 I have been informed by Dr. Reichenow that the bill of the original 

 bird in the Berlin Museum figured by Cabanis is not black, as in the 

 plate, but has only the eulmen black, while the sides are greenish, 

 and there is a small yellowish spot under the nares. 



Hah. Southern Georgia. 



