322 ANATID^. 



p. 386 (1887) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1888, p. 323 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 



(2) Zool. V. p. 92 (1889). 

 Marmaronetta augustirostris, Rchnh. Av. Sijst. Nat.-^.'\x (1852) ; Bp. 



Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. Ill (1856) ; Loche, Cat. Mamm. et 



Ois. Alger, p. 142 (Algeria) (1858) ; Salvad. Faun, d'ltal, Ucc. 



p. 263 (1872) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 520 ; Giyl. Ibis, 1881, 



p. 214 (Italy) ; id. El. Ucc. Ital. p. 87, n. 326 (1881) ; Salv. Cat. 

 ■ B. StricU. Coll. p. 534 (1882) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 309 (1886) ; 



Salvad. El. Ucc. Ital. p. 262 (1886) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 179 



(Afghanistan) ; Gigl. Prima Resoc. Inch. Oi~n. Ital. i. p. 477 (1889) ; 



Carruccio, Boll. Soc. Rom. ii. pp. 1-14 (1893) ; Gigl. Icon. Avif. 



Ital. fasc. Hi. sp. & tav. 356 (1893) ; Koenig, J. f. O. 1893, p. 95. 

 ? Anas cypria, Unger u. Eotschi/, Die Insel Cypern (1865) ; A. Miill. 



J.f. 6. 1879, p. 392, n. 108 ;' cf. Ibis, 1889, p. 346. 

 Marmonetta angustirostris. Mart. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 67 ; Sundev. Meth. 



nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 147 (1872) ; Bogdan. Birds of the Cauc. (in 



Kussian), p. 173 (1879) ; id. Mamin. ^- B. of Middle and Lower 



Vo'ga (in llussiau), p. 149 (18— F) : (cf. Radde, Ornis Caucus. 



p. 455). 

 Chaiilelasmus (Marmonetta) angustirostris, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. 



p. 84, n. 10675 (1871). 

 Chaulelasnius angustirostris, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. 1, p. 1329 



(1873), ii. 2, p. cc (1673); id. J.f. O. 1874, p." 54; Hume, Str. 



Feath. vii. pp. 493, 523 (Lower Bengal) (1879), viii. p. 115, 



n. 961 bis (1879) ; id. Nests ^ Eggs hid. B. {Oates ed.), iii. p. 291 



(1890). 

 Querquedula marmorata, Dress. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 605 (eggs, Seville), 

 ('hauliodes angustirostris, Radde, Ornis Caucus, p. 455 (1884). 

 Marble Duck, McLeod, Str. Feath. x. p. 168 (Firoza, Indus VaUey) 



(1881). 

 Marbled Teal, Hicme, Str. Feath.x. p. 174 (Gurgaon) (1881). 

 Marmaronetta marmorata. Bias. J'er. f. Naturu-iss. (Braunschio. 



Tagehl. 14. 3. 94) (Lech, near Munich) ; cf. Ibis, 1894, p. 453 ; 



Sclat. ibid. 



Adult male. General plumage greyish, mottled and marbled with 

 greyish brown ; head pale greyish, the upper part and the long 

 occipital crest barred with dark brown ; a brown patch across the 

 eyes covers the periophthalmic region ; cheeks and throat whitish, 

 minutely streaked with brown ; upper parts greyish brown, each 

 feather with greyish-butf spot at the tip, rump-feathers brown with 

 jialer edges ; underparts greyish white, with brown bars, more 

 distinct on the breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; on the lower 

 breast and abdomen the bars are almost obsolete ; upper wing- 

 coverts brownish grey ; secondaries paler grey, forming an additional 

 speculum ; primaries brown, silky grey on the outer web ; under 

 wing-coverts white, the marginal ones more or less pale brown ; 

 asillaries white, barred with pale brown towards the tip ; tail greyish 

 brown, the tips and the edges of the feathers wliitish : irides brown ; 

 bill bluish grey, black on the culmen and tip : legs and feet horny 

 brown, with webs black. Total length about 18-5 inches, wing 

 8-1 to 8-5, tail 3-6, bill 1-77 to 1-85, tarsus 1-44 to 1-52. 



Female. Similar to the male, but smaller, the eye-patch and 



