292 ANATID^. 



Neiv List Ckil. B. p. 9, n. 154 (1892) ; Aplin, Ihis, 1894, p. 200 



(Uruguay). 

 Anas (Pterocyanea) maculii-ostris, Burm. J. f. O. 1880, p. 266 



(Mendoza) ; id. La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 516 (1861). 

 Pterocyanea fretensis, Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 85 (18G9). 



Adult male. Upper half of the head blackish brown ; sides of the 

 head and throat whitish buff; lower part of the neck huffish, 

 minutely spotted with black ; mantle and anterior scapulars black, 

 the feathers edged with ochreous, and with a narrow bar of the 

 same colour ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts with narrow 

 white bars, which are more numerous on the latter ; breast huffish, 

 changing into white on the abdomen, each feather with a subapical 

 spot and a bar black ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts white, 

 with black bars, very narrow on the vent and central under tail- 

 coverts ; longer feathers of the flanks with white and black bars ; 

 longer scapulars brown, with a central huffish stripe ; upper wing- 

 coverts greyish brown, the greater row white at the tip, forming a 

 white band anteriorly to the glossy green speculum on the second- 

 aries ; the speculum more or less changing into blue towards the 

 posterior half and bounded by a subapical black band, and by a 

 second white one at the tip of the secondaries ; longer tertials brown ; 

 primaries brown ; under wing-coverts greyish brown, the central 

 ones and the axillaries white ; tail brown-grey, freckled and waved 

 with irregular narrow white bands : bill black, with an orange patch 

 on each side at the base of the upper mandible; "legs and feet 

 green, webs black ; irides white " (Durnford). Total length about 

 16'5 inches, wing 7'5, tail 3'4, calmen 1'6, tarsus I'l. 



Female. Similar, but smaller, colour duller, and wing-speculum 

 not so bright (Sclater). 



Young. Speculum grey, with no metallic-green colour and no 

 subapical black band. 



Hub. Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chili, Patagonia, and Falk- 

 lands ; also Galapagos Islands (?). 



a, b. cj ad. et $ Province of Santiago, Chili Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 juv. sk. {Leybold). 



c. c? ad. sk. Eio Bueno, Chili, Jan. H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. St. Maldonado. Sir W. Burnett & 



Capt. Fitzroy [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Monte Video (Johnston). Salvin-Godman Col'. 

 /, cJ ad. sk. Buenos Ayres, May. H. Durnford,* Esq. 



^. Ad. St. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.]. 



h. Juv. St. Straits of Magellan. Sir W. Burnett & 



Capt. Fitzroy [P.]. 

 i. Ad. sk. Falkland Is. Tweeddale Coll. 



A;. Ad. sk. Falkland Is. Antarctic Exped.[C.]. 



I. Ad. sk." Falkland Is. E. A. Holmstead, 



E.sq.rP.]. 

 m. Ad. sk. Falkland Is. (Leconte). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



