278 ANATID^. 



2. Dafila eatoni. (Plate III.) 



Querqiiedula sp., G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 138 (Kerguelen 

 I.) (1844). 



Querqiiedula kerguelensis, Clarke, Wreck of the 'Favorite,' p. 186 

 (1850) (descr. nulla). 



Querquedula eatoni, 8harpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 328 (ICerguelen Island) ; 

 Coues, Contr. Nat. Hist. Kerg. Is. p. 4 (1875) ; Kidder ^- Coues, 

 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. ii. p. 4 (1875) ; Cab. J. f. O. 1875, p. 449 ; 

 Kidder, op. cit. iii. p. 7 (eggs) (1876) ; Cab. Sf Rchnv). J.f. O. 1876, 

 p. 329 ; Shar^ye, Trans. Ven. E.iped., Zool., Birds, p. 5, pi. vi. 

 (1877); Eaton, ibid. p. 7 (Crozettes) (1877); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 578; Shar2:,e, Phil. Trans, clxviii. p. 105, pi. vi. (1879); Eaton, 

 ibid. p. 107 (Crozettes) (1879) ; Moseley, Notes, pp. 190, 191 (1879); 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 310 (eggs), 1880, p. 623 ; id. Voy. Challeng., 

 Birds, pp. 113, 150 (1881) ; Milne-Ediv. Beck Faun. Beg. Austr. 

 chap. ix. p. 40 (1882) ; B., B., ^- B. Water-B. N. Am. ii. p. 2 

 (note) (1884) ; Pagenst. Jahrb. d. Hamb. Wissensch. Anst. ii. p. 8 

 (part) (1884) ; Cab. J.f. 0. 1888, p. 118. 



Adult male. Head and upper part of the neck dark brown, the 

 feathers with narrow central darker stripes ; nape blackish with 

 pale dottings ; interscapular region and back brown, waved 

 with narrow whitish bars ; scapulars long and acuminate, black, 

 with greyish edges, the outer ones black on the apical part out- 

 wardly ; upper tail-coverts brown edged with whitish, the outer 

 ones black on the outer web ; underparts dull greyish, with a slight 

 brown tinge on the crop-region, which is thickly dotted with small 

 blackish sjiots or streaks, the latter finer on the breast ; sides and 

 flanks regularly barred with black and white, the white bars the 

 narrowest ; crissum black in the middle, greyish outwardly : wings 

 greyish brown ; speculum bronzy green, but the upper and lower 

 parts velvety black, bounded anteriorly' by a narrow cinnamon 

 band at the tip of the last row of the upper wing-coverts, and 

 posteriorly by a subapical black band and by an apical one white ; 

 tertials grey on the outer web, blackish on the inner one, the outer 

 tertial velvety black on the outer web, and with a very distinct 

 whitish band along the inner part of the outer web ; primaries 

 brown on the outer web and at the tip, paler grey on the inner 

 web ; under wing-coverts brown-grey, with pale edges ; tail brown- 

 grey, the central tail-feathers black, elongated and aciiminate : bill 

 blackish, but probably in the living bird plumbeous ; feet also dark 

 in dry skins. Total length about 17 inches, wing 0"1, central tail- 

 feathers G, culmen 1-35, tarsus 1-35. 



Female. Similar iu colouring to the female of I), acuta, only dull 

 greyish on the lower parts, breast with fine dusky streaks, and 

 dimensions much smaller. Head rufescent grey, thickly streaked 

 with black ; the black streaks broader on the upper part of the 

 head ; speculum brown without any metallic lustre, margined with 

 white anteriorly and posteriorly at the tip of the last row of the 

 upper wing- coverts and at the tip of the secondaries. Total length 

 about 14 inches. 



