268 ANATIDJE. 



obsolete spots or bars ; round the middle of tbe neck some small 

 black spots ; some round black spots on the sides ; rump velvety 

 black ; upper tail-coverts grej'ish olive ; under tail- coverts undulated 

 with some irregular dark cross lines, the tip of the larger ones black ; 

 upper wing-coverts vclvetj* black, but the greater row like the 

 secondaries glossy green, more or less with a purple gloss, especially 

 towards the innermost of the latter, which have the apical balf 

 snowy white ; between the green and the white portions a black 

 velvety band ; tertials like the scapulars olive-brown ; primaries 

 black, the inner ones glossed with green on the outer webs ; under 

 wing-coverts black, "with a green lustre ; axillaries white ; tail 

 black : " iris brown ; above dark greyish red, brighter on the edges ; 

 under mandible pale red ; feet cinnabar-red " (Wied). Total length 

 17 inches, wing 8-15, tail 3"9, culmen 1'75, tarsus 1*25. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat duller ; the top of 

 the head and the nape brown ; a whitish spot just a little over and 

 before the eyes, and a second one at the base of the bill above 

 the gape ; no black spots round the middle of the neck ; bill dark 

 brown. 



JIab. South America, from New Granada and Guiana to Magellan 

 Straits. 



a. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Bogota, New Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Granada {G. Croicther). 



J, c. c? ad. et iuv. British Guiaua. Sir R. Schomburgk 



St. [P,]. 



(7, e. c? 5 ad. sk. Aunai, Brit. Guiaua, June Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



f. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [C.]. 



g-i. Ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil ( Wucherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. S juv. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brazil (Joi/ner). 



I. Ad. sk. Salinas, Bolivia, May (R. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Pearce). 



m. Ad. sk. Monte Video [Johnston). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



n. S ad. sk. Buenos Ay res, June. H. Durnford, Esq. 



[P.]. 



o,p. c? 2 ad. sk. Buenos Ayres. Alan Peel, Esq. [P.]. 



q. Ad. St. Zool. Soc. 



15. Nettion torcLuatum. 



Pato collar negro, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 4-52, n. 441 ( J ) (Paraguay) 

 (1805). 



Pato ceja blanca, Azara, ibid. p. 453, n. 442 ($ ) (1805). 



Anas torquata, Tieill. (nee Briss. ncque Gm.) N. D. v. p. 110 (1816) 

 {ex Azara) ; id. Enc. Meth. i. p. 355 (1823) ; Scldeg. Mus. P.-B., 

 Anseres, p. 61 (Brazil ! Chili ! San Domingo !) (1866) ; Gieb. Thes. 

 Orn. i. p. 364 (1872). 



Anas leucophrys, Vieill. N. D. v. p. 156 (1816) (e.r Azara) ; id. Enc. 

 Meth. i. p. 355 (1823) ; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 616, n. 20 

 (1845) ; Hartl, Lid. Azar. Apunt. p. 28, u. 442 (1847). 



