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light brown, the feathers of the lower fore neck, breast, and sides 

 with large subapical black spots ; lower breast and abdomen undu- 

 lated with blackisli bars ; wings brassy green ; a glossy green 

 speculum on the secondaries, which are broadly tipped with white 

 and have a black subterminal band bordering posteriorly the 

 speculum ; longer scapulars brassy green, with a light brown stripe 

 along the middle ; under wing-coverts blackish brown, the median 

 and the greater ones, like the axillaries, white ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with pale brown : " bill dark lead-colour ; feet dark 

 brown ; irides brown " (Antinori) ; but according to Andersson, 

 " iris reddish yellow ; bill bluish red except at the base, where it 

 is black ; legs purplish yellow." Total length about 13 inches, 

 wing 6-2, tail 2-5, culmen 1-45, tarsus 1. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat duUer, and the 

 markings less distinct. 



Yoimg. Differs from the adult birds in having the breast as well 

 as the abdomen pale fawn-colour, with no distinct spots or obsolete 

 ones and no transverse dusky bars ; the under tail-coverts are 

 reddish fawn-colour and unsjiotted. 



Hah. Southern Africa and Madagascar, north to Angola on the 

 West and Shoa on the East. 



a. 2 imm. sk. Damara-land. Purchased. 



b.?(S juv. sk. Omaiibonde, Damara-land H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



{Andersson). [P.]. 



c,d. c? 2 ad. sk. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



(Types of Querquednia hottentota, Smith.) 

 e-i. d 2 <'^d. sk. Natal. Tweeddale Coll. 



k. S ad. sk. Newcastle, Natal, Dec. Shelley Coll. 



I. (S ad.sk. Potchefstroom,Nov. (r.^yz-e*-). J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 m. S ad. sk. Transvaal. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 n-t. S 2 ad. et Lake Shirwa, Nyassa-land, Sir H. H. Johnston, 

 juv. sk. May, August {A. Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



14. Nettion brasiliense. 



? Mareca, alia species, 3Iarc(/r. Hist. Br. p. 214 ( 2 ). 



Anas brasiliensis, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 360 (1760) {e.v Marcqrav). 



Mareca, Btif. Hist. Nat. Ois. Lx. p. 256 (1783). 



Mareca Duck, Lath. Spi. iii. 2, p. .508, n. 54 (1785). 



Anas brasiliensis, G7n. S. N. i. 2, p. 517, n. 78 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. ii. p. 856, n. 59 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. v. p. 125 (1816) ; 

 Licht. Abh. k. Ak. Wissensch. Berl. 1816-17, p. 172; Dum. Diet. 

 So. Nat. vi. p. 380 (1817) ; Wied, Reise nach Bras. i. pp. 112, 163 

 (1820); Less. Tr. d'Ortt. p. 634(1831); Wied, Beit r. iv. p. 933 

 (18.32) ; Hartl. Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 119 (1844) : Cab. in Schomb. 

 Guiana, iii. p. 762 (Giuana) (1848) ; Burm. Syst. Uebers. Th. 

 Bras. iii. p. 439 (1856) ; id. J. f. 0. 1860, p. 267 (Parana and 

 Tucuman) ; id. La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 517 (Tucuman) (1861) ; 

 Schleq. Mus. F.-B., Anseres, p. 61 (1866) ; JEukr, J. f. O. 1867, 

 pp. i89 197, 198; Rei7ih. Fugl. Bras. Camp. -^.21 (int. Brazil) 



