286 ANATID^. 



Coll. p. 533 (1882) ; Mat. List Vert. An. Stli ed. p. 436 (1883) : 

 Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 50 (1889). 



Pcecilouetta erythrorhyiiclia, Gum. Ibis, 1859, p. 251 (Natal), 1861, 

 p. 134, 1862, p. 158, 1868, p. 471 ; Boc. Jorn. Ac. Sc. Lish. 1867, 

 p. 329 ; Sdat. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 629 (breeding) ; Boc. Jorn. Ac. Sc. 

 Lish. 1871, p. 277, 1872, p. 70 ; Anderss. B. Damara Land, p. 339 

 (Damara and Great Namaqua-land) (1872); Boc. J. f. 0. 1876, 

 p. 294 (Rio Coroca) ; Gttrn. ibid. ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 272 

 (Transvaal) ; Boc. Orn. Ancj. p. 501 (1881) ; S/uaj^e in Oates' 

 Matah.-Land, p. 328 (1881) ; id. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 754 

 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) i. p. 244 (Shoa) (1884), 

 Ti. p. 32 (Shoa) (1888) ; Shell. Ibis, 1888, p. 307 (Tang-ani), 1894, 

 T)p. 28, 478 (Lake Shirwa) ; Salvad. Mem. B. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) 

 sliv. p. 564 (Somali) (1894). 



Nettion erythrorhynclia, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 84, n. 10668 

 (1871). 



Dafila ervthrorliynclia, Gieb. Thes. Orn. li. p. 14 (18/5). 



Querquedula pyrrliorhynclia, Holuh, Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 330, in 

 syn. Q. erytiirorhynchfe (1882). 



Anas (Dafila) erythrorlivncha, Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 20 ; 

 id. V6(j. zool. Gcirt. p." 54 (1882). 



Adult male. Upper half of the head, as far as the eyes, dark 

 brown, sharply defined from the whitish of the sides of the head 

 and throat ; neck greyish, mottled with blackish spots ; back and 

 scapulars brown, the feathers edged with reddish buff; uuder- 

 parts whitish, each feather with greyish-brown spots, larger on the 

 fiauks, darker and better defined on the under tail-coverts ; wings 

 slaty o'rey ; a narrow velvety -black speculum more or less with a 

 o-reeu lustre, edged anteriorly by a reddish-fawn band formed by 

 the tips of the last row of upper wing-coverts ; a very broad band 

 of the same colour on the apical half of the secondaries ; under wing- 

 coverts brown-grey, the greater ones paler and purer grey ; tail dark 

 brown, the edges of the feathers fawn-colour : " iris brown : legs, 

 toes, and webs blackish purple ; upper mandible dark purple, faintly 

 tino'ed Avith green upon the ridge, the remainder of the mandible 

 above the edge pinkish : lower mandible bluish pink " {Andersson) ; 

 but, according to T. Ayres, " iris light umber ; bill bright pink, 

 darkest towards base of upper mandible ; ridge dusky brown ; tarsi 

 and feet dark ash." Total length about 17 inches, wing 9, tail 3*8, 

 culmen 1-62, tarsus 1-42. 



Female. Similar, or scarcely different. 



Young ill doion. Similar to the same stage of P. hahamensls, hut 

 a shade'darker on the upper parts. 



Hah. Africa, from the Cape to Angola on the West, and to 

 Abyssinia and Sennaar on the East ; Madagascar, 



a. Ad. sk. No locality. Purchased. 



b, c. Ad. St. Africa. Old Coll. 



d. Ad. St. Abyssinia. Dr. Ptiippell [C.]. 



p 9 ad sk E. side of Kilimanjaro, June. II. C. V. Himter, 

 ■ ^ ■ ■ Esq. [P.]. 



/■_,• rC 9 ad. sk. Lake Shirwa, Nyassa-land, May II. II. Johnston, Esq., 

 -^ {A. Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



