5-14 



4. Nyroca baeri. 



Anas leucopbtlialmos, Kiitl. {nee Borkh.) Isis, 1829, p. 529 (Kamt- 



schatka) ; cf. Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mm. x. p. 137 (note) (1887). 

 ? Nyroca leucophthalma a. dussumieri,^^. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 651, 



n. 138 a (Bengal, valde major) (1856) *. 

 Anas (Fuligula) baeii, HaJde, Iteis. S. O.-Slbir. ii. p. 376, pi. 15 



(1863) ; cf. Ibis, 1866, p. 118. 

 Anas baeri, Homey. J.f. O. 1870, p. 4.33. 

 Aythya ferina (en-ore), Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 419 (Sbaugbai) ; id. 



Ibis, 1873, p. 306. 

 Fulix baeri, Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 419 (Kiukiang on tbe Yangtse) ; 



id. Ibis, 1873, pp. 366, -367, ? 1875, p. 457. 

 Fulix cristata, part., G. M. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 86, n. 10084 (1871). 

 Fuligula nyroca, David (nee Giildenst.), N. Arch, du Mus., Bull. vii. 



Cat. n. 354 (1871) ; Blakist. S,- Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 215 (Japan) ; 



Seeb. Ibis, 1879, p. 22 (Japan). 

 Fuligula baeri, Dyb. J.f. O. 1874, p. 337 ; Taez. J.f. O. 1875, p. 257 



(Ussuri) ; id. Bnll. Soc. Zonl. Fr. ii. p. 47 (1877) ; David ^ Oust. 



Ois. Chine, p. 509, pi. 124 (1877); Seeb. B. Jap. Emp. p. 254 



(1890) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 328, 497 (Yangtse). 

 Fulix nyroca, David 8f Oust, {nee Giildenst.) Ois. Chine, p. 507 



(1877) t. 

 Nyroca ferruginea, Blalist. 8,- Pryer (nee Gm.), Tr. As. Soc. Jap. x. 



'l, p. 99 (1882) ; Blakist. Ame^id. List B. Jap. p. 9, n. 47 (18s4), 

 Fuligula baueri (errore), Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 48 (1889). 



Adult male. Head and neck black, with a green lustre ; a white 

 spot on chin ; upper parts brown ; the interscapular region and 

 the scapulars finely waved with paler brown irregular lines ; breast 

 rufous chestnut, sharply defined from the white of the abdomen ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; flanks rufous brown ; vent tinged with 

 brown ; speculum white, with a broad blackish snbapical band ; a 

 narrow white band at tbe tip of the secondaries ; quills whitish, 

 with the outer web and tips brown ; marginal under wing-coverts 

 blackish, remainder, like the axillaries, white ; tail brown : bill 

 bluish, with the base and the nail black ; feet lead-grey, with the 

 joints darker ; irides white or " pale yellow " (David). Total length 

 about 19 inches, wing 8, tail 2-8, culmen 1-75, tarsus 1-45. 



Female. Similar to the male, but the head and neck less glossy, a 

 chestnut patch on the anterior part of the face, near the base 

 of the bill ; upper breast of a duller chestnut : back brown, without 

 narrow wavy lines ; brown base of the abdominal feathers more 

 extended. 



Hah. Eastern Asia, from Xamtschatka to Shanghai, and Japan, 



a. S ad. sk. No locality. Seebohm Coll. 



b. (S fid- sk. Kiukiang, China, March (P. Seebohm Coll. 



Swinhoe). 



* In the Paris Museum there is a specimen of N. baeri labelled " Bengala, 

 18'J5 (Duvaneel)"'. 



!■ In the Paris Museum there are uo specimens of N. africana collected in 

 China bj' Pere David. 



