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coverts, and most of the feathers of the rump are broadly barred, 

 instead of finely vermiculatcd, with white (tSeclohm). 



Adult males in moultlnfj-plumafie maybe distinguished from adult 

 females by having an alar speculum, and being richer and darker in 

 colour (Seehohm). 



TowKj in doiun have the same pale spots on the upper parts as 



those of the Mallard, but the white on the throat and belly is slightly 



suffused with grey instead of buff, and in addition to the dark line 



"• passing through the eye, a second dark line passes from the lores 



below the eye to the nape (Seehohiu). 



According to some ornithologists, European specimens differ very 

 appreciably from North American in having a narrower speculum 

 (B., B., cj- R.), but I have failed to find that there is any appre- 

 ciable difference. 



liah. Northern Hemisphere, breeding in the northern parts, and 

 migrating southward to Northern Africa, India, Ceylon, China, and 

 Japan, and in America as far as Panama and Cuba.* 



a. 9 iuv. sk. Shetland, April. H. J. Elwes, Esq 



[P.]. 



b. c? juv. st. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Sept. Theodore Fisher, 



Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ^^- St. Cambridgeshire. Purchased. 



d. c? ad. sk. Kent. Montagu Coll. 



e. c? ad. sk. Devonshire. Montagu Coll. 



/. Pull. sk. Valkeuswiiard, Holland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I/, h. S ad. et S Arcachon, Frauce, Jan., Nov. Seebohm CoU. 



imm. sk. {E. J'. Seebohm). 



i. c? ad. sk. S. Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



/.;. (S ad. sk. Near Se^-ille, Spain, Feb. Tweeddale Coll. 



{H. Saunders). 

 I. S ad. sk. Egypt, Feb. (G. E. S.). Shelley CoU. 



m. $ ad. sk. Ea-ypt, March. Dr. Worthington 



[P.J. 

 n. 2 ad. sk. AngoUala (Harris). India Museum [P.]. 



o. Pull. st. Archangel. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 p. (S juv. sk. Nerimowskaja, Ob River, Dr. O. Finsch [P.]. 



Sept. 

 q,r. cJ $ ad. sk. Yen-e-sai, Siberia, Lat.GGp Seebohm Coll. 



June. 

 «. S ad. sk. Omsk, May. St. G. Littledale, 



Esq. [P.]. 



* Dafila .modesta. 



Dafila modesta, Tristr. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 79, pi. rii. (Sydnev I., Phcenix 

 Group, Centr. Pacific); id. Cat Coll. B. p. 50 (1889); Lister, P. Z. S. 

 1891, pp. 289, 298, 300 ; Wiffksw. Aves Polyn. p. 71 (1891). 



Canon Tristram has kindly sent me for inspection the types of his D. modt.-^ta : 

 the male is immature, has the right wing cut, and has been kept in confine- 

 ment ; I cannot distinguish them from some specimens of D. acuta; still, 

 considering the locality whence they came, I do not think it quite safe, at least 

 for the present, to identify l). modesta with I), acuta, 



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