324 AKATTDiE. 



40. STICTONETTA *. ^^^ 



Stictonetta, Rchnh, Av. Syst. Nat. p. ix (1852) S. nseyosa. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



1. Stictonetta naevosa. 



Anas nffivosa, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 177 (W. Australia) ; id. B. 

 Austr. vii. pi. 10 (pt. v., 1841) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 192; 

 Schleff. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 63 (1866); 31ull. P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 280; Gieb. Tkes. Orn. i. p. 358 (1872) (China!); Bams. Pr. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. pp. 195, 216, 219 (1876) ; Bchnw. Orn. 

 Centralbl. 1882, p. 19. 



Tadorna nfevosa, G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mm. iii. p. 132 (1844) ; id. 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 613, n. 3 (1845) ; Bchnb. Syn. Av., Natatores, t. 93. 

 f. 431 {ex Gould) (1845). 



Stictonetta nsevosa, Bchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. ix (1852) ; Bp. Compt. 

 Bend, xliii. p. 649, n. 79 (1856) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 192 ; 

 Gotdd, Handb. B. Avstr. ii. p. 3U7 (1865) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, 

 iii. p. 80, n. 10620 (1871) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 200, 

 n. 656 (1878), iii. p. 154 (trachea) (1878); Sclat. P.Z.S. 1880, 

 p. 513; Morton, Pr. R. Soc. Tasm. 1884, p. Ixxii (Tasmania) 

 (of. Ibis, 1884, p. 472) (1885); Leyye, Pr. R. Soc. Tasm. 1886, 

 p. 244 (Tasmania) (1887) ; Ba7ns. Tab. List, p. 22, n. 667 (1888) ; 

 North, Cat. Nests fy Eggs Austr. B. p. 340 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. 

 Coll. B. p. 50 (1889) {'Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 228 (1891) ; 

 Harting, Ibis, 1894, p. 297 (Gippsland). 



Adult. The whole of the plumage is dark brown, blacker on the 

 anterior part of the head, minutely freckled and spotted with 

 irregular oblong marks or bars of white, tinged with bufBsh on 

 the upper parts ; the under surface the same, but whiter, the 

 ground-colour being white, and the freckles and bars brown ; under 

 tail-coverts almost regularly barred with brown ; wings without 

 speculum ; primaries plain brown ; secondaries spotted like the 

 upper parts and besides towards the tip they have distinct white 

 bands ; under wing-coverts white, irregularly marked with brown ; 

 axillaries pure white : " irides light brown ; bill greenish grey, 

 becoming much darker at the tip; legs bluish green" {Gould). 

 Total length 1 7'5 inches, wing 9, tail 3, culmen 2-2, tarsus 1-8. 



Female. Similar to the supposed male, but perhaps less black on 

 the face. 



Bob. Southern and Western Australia, and Tasmania. 



a-d. Ad. sk. Australia {Cockerell ^ Thorpe). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e,f. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Australian Museiun [E.]. 



ff, h. Ad. sk. Interior of New South Wales. Lord Leigh [P.]. 



i. $ ad. sk. Gipps Land Lakes, Victoria J. E. Harting, Esq. [P.], 



{E. Curtis). 



k, l. Ad. sk. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



* Systematic position very uncertain. Nail of the bill bent backwards as in 

 Erismatura .' Bill rather long, at the base much compressed and very high, 

 rather broad towards the tip ; the edge of the upper mandible furnished 

 towards the tip with lamellre prominent horizontally ; culmen very concave, as 

 in Tadorna cornuta. No wing-epeculum. Tail \ery short. 



