296 ANATID^. 



Eyt. Syn. Anat. p. 84 (1869); Tacz. J.f. O. 1870, p. 55 (Con- 



stantina). 

 Anas (Querquedula) humeralis, S. Miill. Verh. Land- en Volkenh. 



p. 169 (Java) (1839-44). 

 Querquedula vulgaris, Iludgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86, n. 767 



(1844). 

 Cyanoptems querquedula, Haiil. Verz. Ges. Mus. p. 119 (1844) ; 



Heuql. Si/st. Uebers. n. 692 (1855) ; Sundev. Meth. nat. Av. disp. 



Tent. p. 147 (1872) : v. Koch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 139; Alst. Sr H.- 

 Brown, Ibis, 1873, p. 71. 

 Querquedula humeralis, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 616, n. 13 (1845) ; 



Bj). Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 616, n. 98 (1856). 

 Pterocvanea querquedula, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 102 (1854) ; Bp. 



Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. 93 (1856) ; Dyb. J.f. 0. 1873, p. 110 ; 



Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. p. 46 (1877); id. Orn. Faun. Vast. 



Sibir. p. 70 (1877) ; Heuyl. Faun. Roth. Meer. n. 286 (1881) ; 



Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. viii. p. 343 (1883) ; I)yb. ^- Tacz. op. cit. 



ix. p. 147 (Bering I.) (1884). 

 Pterocyanea glaucopteros, Brehn, Vogelf. p. 374 (1855) ; id. Nau- 



mannia, 1855, p. 298. 

 Pterocyanea scapularis, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 374 (1855) ; id. Naumannia, 



1855, p. 298. 

 Anas glaucoptera, C. F. Bub. PI. Col. Ois. Belg. iii. p. 274 (I860). 

 Anas ( Cyanopterus) querquedula, Radde, Reis. S. O.-Sib. iii. p. 370 



(1863). 

 Querquedula numeralis (errore), Jerd. B. of Ind. iii. p. 808 (1864). 

 Querquedula querquedula, Baird, Am. Journ. of Sc. ^ Arts, xli. 



p. 339 (1866) ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 283; SteJ7i. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 29, p. 156 (Kamschatka) (1885) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. 



p. 136 (note) (1887). 

 Anas pterocyanea, Goeldlin, J.f. O. 1879, p. 382 (Scbaffhausen). 

 Anas (Querquedula) circia, Rchniv. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 20 ; id. 



Vog. zool. Giirt. p. 55 (1882). 

 Cyanopterus querquedulus (!), Radde, Ornis Cauc. p. 457 (1884). 



Adult male. Upper part of the head and occiput brown-hlack ; 

 from above the eyes, on each side of the head, a whitish band, 

 extending to the sides of the occiput ; sides of the head and upper 

 part of the neck chocolate-brown, streaked with white ; chin black ; 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts blackish, each feather edged 

 with greyish olive ; scapulars elongated and pointed, black, with a 

 central stripe of white ; breast with brown and black crescentic 

 bands, producing a scaly-like appearance ; lower breast white ; 

 abdomen, sides, and flanks white, waved with narrow black lines ; 

 longer feathers of the flanks bounded by a subapical white band, 

 and a bluish-grey band at the tip ; sides of the rump and under 

 tail-coverts whitish, with black spots ; upper wing-coverts and outer 

 scapulars bluish grey ; wing-speculum on the secondaries glossy 

 green, bounded anteriorly by a white band formed by the greater 

 wing-coverts, and posteriorly by another white band at the tip of 

 the secondaries ; primaries and tail-feathers brown, the latter edged 

 with whitish ; under wing-coverts dark grey, the central ones, like 

 the axillaries, white : bill black, irides hazel ; legs, toes, and their 

 membranes greyish brown. Total length about 16 inches, wing 7'7o, 

 tail 2-75, culmen 1-62, tarsus 1-2. 



