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fawn-colour, formed bj- the tips of the secondaries ; tertials dusky 

 brown edged with fawn-colour, the inner ones velvety black along 

 the middle ; under wiug-coverts like the upper ones, but the greater 

 ones grey, and the inner ones, like the axillars, whitish : bill bluish- 

 lead, with two red or bright orange-yellow spots at the base of the 

 upper mandible ; feet brown. Total length 19 inches, wing 8-4-10, 

 tail 5, culmen 1-85, tarsus 1-40. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat smaller and less 

 bright, especially on the speculum. 



Young male. Similar to the female. 



Young ill down. Very similar to the same stage of Dajtla acuta, 

 but the white of the sides of the head and underparts with a slight 

 yellow tinge. 



JIab. Bahamas, Antilles, and the whole of South America, with 

 the Palklands, but not in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. (5 ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. St. 



e. Ad. St. 

 /, ff. d ad. 



ad. sk. 

 /*. Ad. St. 

 i, k. Pull. St. 

 I. Skeleton. 



et 



Antigua, W. Indies, Feb. 

 (Feilden). 



Cajutuba, Brazil {Nat- 

 ter er). 



Buenos Ay res, Aug. 



Chili. 



S. America. 



Bred in continement (Zool. 

 Soc), Feb., Oct. 



W. India Committee 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



H.Durnford,Esq.rP.l. 

 C. Crawley, Esq. [P.I. 

 J. E. Grav, Esq. [P.'. 

 H.J. Elwes,Esq. [P.j 



Dr. Gunther [P.]. 

 Zoological Society. 



2. Pcecilonetta galapagensis. 



Poecilonitta bahamensis, Gould {nee Linn.), Zool. of the Beagle, iii. 



p. 135 (Galapagos) (1841). 

 Anas bahamensis, Sund. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 126 (Galapagos). 

 Dafila bahamensis, Sclat. i^- >'iah\ P. Z. S. 1870, p. 323 (Indefatigable 



Island) ; Salv. Tr. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 499 (Galapagos) (1876) ; 



Sclat. i,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 393 (part.) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 428 (Charles Isl.). 

 Pcecilonetta galapagensis, Ridnio. Pi: U.S. Nat. Miis. xii. p. 115 



(1889). 



Similar to P. bahamensis (Linn.), but white on sides of head 

 thickly speckled with brown, instead of being quite immaculate, and 

 top of head greyer brown ; under tail-coverts less rufescent and 

 more greyish ; axillaries white, usually with brown spots along the 

 middle. Total length about 14 inches, wing 7*5, tail 2-9, culmen 

 1*6, tarsus 1'3. 



Hah. Galapagos Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b, c, d. 2 ad. et 

 d juv. sk. 



Charles I., Galapagos, Feb. 



{Capt. A. H. Markham). 

 Indefatigable I., Galapagos, 



Aug. {Dr. Habel). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



