34. ELASirOXETTA. 287 



k. c? ad. sk. Lamu, Aug'. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Mamboio (Ki'rk). SlieUey Coll. 



^) "• d 2 ad. sk. Mapane Pan, Matabele, Nov. W. £. & C. G. Gates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 "(i^- c5' ? ad. sk. Potchffstroom, Transvaal, J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



March, June {T. Ayres). [P.]. 



q. Ad. sk. Potchefstroom. F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 r. Ad. sk. Grahamstown (E. L. Laijard). Shelley Coll. 



s, t. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



u. (S ad. sk. Central Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 



V, to. Pull. St. Zool. Soc. 



.r. *Ad. St. Zoological Gardens. Zool. Soc. 



y. Skeleton. Zool. Soc. 



34. ELASMONETTA. _, 



Type. 



Elasmonetta, Salvad. MS. E. chlorotis. 



Bill compressed, soft on the edges of the apical part of the upper 

 mandihle ; lamellae extremely developed ; wings "well developed. 

 Ranrji\ Confined to Xcw Zealand subregion. 



1. Elasmonetta chlorotis. 



Anas chlorotis, G. R. Gr. Voy. Ereb. l^ Terr., Birds, p. 15, pi. 20 

 (1846) : Rchnb. Syn. Av., Xatatores, t. 85. f. 912 (ISJ^) (er I. c.) ; 

 G. R. Gr. Gen. B., App. p. 2^ (1849) ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 

 p. G49, n. 71 (1856) ; G. R. Gr. Ibis, 1862, p. 241 ; Peh. Reise 

 Novara, Viiqel, p. 138 (1865) ; BuUer, Ess. on the Orn. yew Zeal. 

 p. 18 (1865) ; Hector, New Zeal. E.vh. p. 277 (Otago) (1866) ; 

 Finsch, J.f. 0. 1867, p. 336 ; id. Tr. X. Z. Inst. i. p. 72 (1869) ; 

 ? Trovers, Trans. N. Z. Inst. i. p. 178 (Chatham Isl. !) (1869) t ; 

 Ei/t. Syn. Anat. p. 93 (1869) : Potts, Tr. N. Z. Inst. ii. p. 72 

 (1870); Hutt. Ibis, 1870, p. 398 (.Auckland); Finsdi, J.f.O. 

 1870, p. 357 ; Hutt. Cat. B. New Zeal. p. 36 (1871) ; G. R. Gr. 

 Hand-list, iii. p. 82, n. 10648 (1871) ; Hutt. Ibis, 1872, p. 250 

 (Chatham Isl.:-') ; Gieb. T/ies. Orn.i.-p. 347 (1872) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 

 1872, p. 186 ; Biiller, Hist. B. X. Zeal. p. 248 (1873) ; Fi?isch, 

 J.f. 0. 1874, p. 202; Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. ^- Terr., Birds, p. 31 

 (1875); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 519; Finsc/i, Ibis, 1882, p. 397; 

 Bull. Man. B. Xew Zeal. p. 68 (1882) ; Rch7uc. Orn. Centralbl. 

 1882, p. 19; Milne-Edw. Rech. Faun. Rey. Austr. chap. ix. p. 41 

 (1882) ; Bull. Hist. B. Xeic Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 257, pi. xlii. (upper 

 lis. 6) (1883) : Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 49 (1889) ; Buller, Trans. 

 N. Z. Inst. XXV. 1892, p. 62 (1893). 



Nesonetta aucklandica, Hector (riec G. R. Gr.), Kew Zeal. E.rh. 

 p. 277, n. 56 (1866) ; cf Finsch, J.f. 0. 1874, p. 202. 



* Sent as a hybrid between P. bahamensis and Anas xanihorhyncha, but is 

 indistinguishable from P. erythrorhyncha. 



+ I have not been able to find this reference, quoted by Hutton. 



