31. NETXION. 269 



Querquedula manillensis, Ei/t. {nee Gm.) Mon. Anat. p. 125 (1838) 



(type examined) * ; id. Syn. Anat. p. 78 (1869). 

 Anas rubidoptera, Dub. Oni. Gal. p. UO, pi. Ivii. (^ and J ) (183'J) ; 



G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. CIG, n. 23 (1845). 

 Anas rhodopus, Merrem in Ur.sck u. Grub. Enc. sect. i. Tol. xxxv. 



p. 45 (1841). 

 Querquedula torqiiatn, G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 139 



(1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 616, n. 12 (1845) ; Hartl. Ind. Azar. 



Aptmt. p. 28, n. 411 (1847); Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 650, 



n. 105 (1856) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 18<i7, p. 335 (Chili !) ; Sclat.S)- Sah. 



P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 635 (Argrentine) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 460 (1870) : 



Burm. P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 367 (Parana) ; Sclat. S^- 8alv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotrop. p. 129 (Arf>-sutine) (1873) ; Sclat. S)- Salv. P. Z. S. 



1876, p. 389 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 522 ; Berl. J. f. O. 1887, 



p. 124 ; Sclat. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 132 (1889) : Ajylin, Ibis, 1894, 



p. 201 (Uruguay). 

 Anas rliodoptera, Dub. (errore), Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 650 (in 



syn. sp. 105) (1856). 

 ? Querquedula leucophrys, Bp. I. c. n. 107 (1856). 

 Nettion torquata,G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 83, n. 10666 (1871). 



Adult male. Crown and hind neck black, expanded below into a 

 half-collar; forehead dull grey, streaked with black ; cheeks, throat, 

 and sides of the neck dull whitish grey, with dusky streaks on the 

 former ; back greyish olive ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts deep black ; breast rosy red, each feather with a roundish 

 subapical black spot ; abdomen whitish, obsoletely barred with 

 grey ; flanks pure grey, waved with narrow black lines ; under 

 tail-coverts black, with a white blotch on each side at the base : 

 scapulars chestnut-red ; upper wing-coverts glossy black, with a 

 white patch on the anterior secondary-coverts ; secondaries bronzy 

 green on the outer web, forming the speculum ; tertiaries olive- 

 brown, primaries blackish brown ; under wing-coverts black, the 

 greater ones brown-black ; tail black : bill black (?) ; feet yeUow. 

 Total length 14 inches, wing 7"2, tail 2-5, culmen 1-48, tarsus 1"0S. 



Female. Brown ; superciliary stripe, middle of the cheeks, throat, 

 and sides of the upper neck white ; back and scapulars olive-brown ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts black ; beneath dull whitish, with 

 broad subapical pale brown bands, better defined on the flanks : 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish, the latter powdered with 

 dusky ; wings as in the male ; tail brown : bill reddish brown ; 

 feet brown (or yellow ?). 



Hah. Paraguay, I^ruguay, and Argentine ; wrongly stated to 

 inhabit Chili, Brazil, and San Domingo {Schlegd). 



a. (S ad. St. S. America. Old Coll. 



h. c? ad. sk. Hwenos, XyYes{W. H.Hudson). .Sal viu-Cxodman Coll. 



c. 2 ad. St. Probably Bolivia {Bridges), Cuming Coll. 



* Dr. H . O. Forbes has been so kind as to let mo examine one of the types 

 of Eyton's deseription, preserved in the Liverpool Museum. 



