3G. QUERQUEDTILA. 291 



. Upper wing-coverts pale blue ; cheeks and sides 

 of the upper part of the neck brown-vinous, 



streaked with white (male) circia, p. 293. 



Upper wing-coverts bright smalt-blue. 

 c'. A crescent-like white band between the eyes 

 and the bill of the male ; smaller, bill usually 



less than 1-G5 discors, p. 299. 



d'. No crescent-like white band between the eyes 

 and the bill of the male, which has the sides 

 of the head, neck, breast, and sides bright 

 chestnut; larger, bill usually more than l'6o. ct/anoptera, p. 303. 



1. Querquedula versicolor. 



Pato pico de tres colores, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 450, n. 440 (Paraguay) 



(1805). 

 Anas versicolor, Vieill. N. D. v. p. 109 (1816) (e.r Azara) ; id. Enc. 



Meth. i. p. ;353 (1823) ; ScUer). Mm. P.-B., Anseres, p. 57 (1866) ; 



IScIat. S,- Salo. Ibis, 1870, p. 499 (Sandy Point) ; Gieb. Thes. Oni. 



i. p. 304 (1872) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsammi. p. 231 (llio Grande, 



S. America) (1891). 

 Anas maculirostris, Licht. Verz. Donhl. p. 84 (Montevideo) (1823) ; 



Sundev. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 126 (Galapagos!). 

 Anas fretensis, Eint/, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 15 (M:igellan Straits). 

 Cvanopterus fretensis, Ei/t. Mon. Anat. p. 131 (18-38) ; Jard. ^• 



'Selb. 111. Om. iv. pi. 29"(1838); Fraser, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 157. 

 Anas muralis, Merrem in Ersch u. Gnch. Enc. sect. i. vol. xxxv. 



p. 42 (1841). 

 Cyanopterus maculirostris, Harfl. J'erz. Ges. Mm. p. 119 (1844). 

 Querquediila maculirostris, G. H. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 138 



(1844) ; Des Murs in Gai/, Hist, de Chile, i. p. 452 (1848) ; Sartl. 



Naumannia, 1853, p. 222; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 102 (1854); 



Phil, c^- Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 42 (1868) ; Burm. P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 367 ; id. An. 3fus. Nac. Buen. Air. iii. pp. 247, 320 (1888). 

 Pterocvanea maculirostiis, G.B. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 017, n. 2 (1845) ; 



Echiib. Si/n. Av.. Natatores, t. 89. f. 181 (1845) ; Hartl. Lid. Azar. 



Apunt. p. 28, n. 440 (1847) ; Bchnb. Si/n. Av. t. 90. f. 2344 (1850) 



(e.r Jard. ^- Selb.) ; Bibra, Denkschr. Akad. Wien, v. 2, p. 132 



(1853) (Chili) ; id. J.f. 0. 1855, p. 57; Pelz. Bei.se Novara, Vog. 



p. 139 (Chili) (1865) ; id. Om. Bras. p. 464 (1870). 

 Pterocyanea versicolor, Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 650, no. 91 (syn. 



emend.) (1856). 

 Querquedula versicolor, Cass. U.S. Astron. E.vp. ii. p. 203 (Chili) 



(1856) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 389 (Falklands) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, 



p. 161 (Falklands) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 335 (Chili) ; Sclat. ^■ 



Salo. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 146 (Buenos Ayres) ; G. B. Gr. Sand-list, 



iii. p. 83, n. 10659 (1871) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 129 (1873) ; Salvin, Trans. 7moL Soc. iv. p. 499 (1876) ; Sclat. 



.V Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 388 ; Bumf. Ibis, 1877, pp. 41 (Chuput), 



191 (Buenos Avres), 1878, p. 401 (Centr. Patag., resident) ; Sclat. 



P. Z. S. 1880, p. 522 ; Milne-Edw. Reck. Faun. lUg. Austr. ch. ix. 



p. 46 (1882) ; Barrotcs, Auk, 1884, p. 274 (Entrerios) ; Berl. J. f. O. 



1887, p. 124 (Parairuav); Sclat. Arqent. Om. ii. p. 131 (1889); 



Tristr. Cat. Coll. B^.t^.'AQ (1889); Oust. Miss. Sc. Cap Horn, vi. 



Ois. p. 207 (1891) ; HoUand, Ibis, 1892, p. 207 (.^jgentina) ; Kerr, 



Ibis, 1890, p. 358, 1892, p. 146 (Lower Pilcomayo) ; Berkel. Jatnes, 



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