44. NTROCA. 351 



Anas australia, Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 3^5 (1872) (syn. emend.). 

 Ilyonetta australis, Hein. ^ JRchmv. Noin. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 347 



(1890). 

 Fuliijula baeri, Rothsch. Sf Hartert (nee Radds), Zool. Res. i. [p. 684 



(Waigiou and Aifak) (1894). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and breast dark brown-chestnut ; back 

 and scapulars dark brown, each feather with olive-brown edges ; 

 rump uniform dark brown ; abdomen white, but the lower part of 

 it brown ; sides brown, each feather with paler edges; wings brown 

 with an olive gloss ; speculum white, tipped with brown ; primaries 

 •white, with the outer web and tip brown, the first three have the 

 inner web more or less greyish brown near the shaft ; under wing- 

 coverts white, except the marginal ones, which are brown ; tertials 

 brown, with an olive gloss ; tail brown : " irides white ; bill black, 

 with a dark slate-blue band at the tip [nail black] ; front of tarsi 

 very light grey, behind darker ; toes very light grey, membranes 

 black, bordered with light grey on the side of each toe" {Hutton). 

 Length about 20 inches, wing 8"75, tail 2-b, culmen 1-9, 

 tarsus 1-6. 



Female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller and duller, 

 having scarcely any tinge of chestnut on the head and neck, which 

 are brown. 



Young male. Has the chestmit-brown colour much lighter and 

 the feathers of the back margined with pale brown ; it has also less 

 gloss on the head, and the brownish white of the underparts mottled 

 with brown [BuUer). 



Hah. Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Aucklands, New 

 Caledonia, and Papuan Islands, west\^ ards as far as Waigiou. 



a. <S ad. St. No locality. 



h. S ad. St. Australia. Purchased. 



c. Juv. St. Australia. Lady Carrington [P.]. 



d. d ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.J. 



e. cf ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



/, ffj h. 2 ad. et AustraUa. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



juv. sk. 



i,k. cJad. etimm. New South Wales. Australian Museum [P.]. 



sk. 



/. (f ad. sk. Lawrence River (/yi'(V?y). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. <5 ad. sk. S. Australia. dipt. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



n. Juv. sk. Tasmania. H. J. Elwes, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Nyroca brunnea. 



Anas capensis, Cuv. (nee Gm.), Mus. Pun'.s. ; Lpsx. Ti: d'Orn. p. 6.S2, 

 n. o9 (1831^ (descr. incompl.) ; Piicher. Rev. et Mar/. Zool. 1850, 

 p. 545 ; Uartl. J. f. 0. 1855, p. 419 ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 346 

 (part.) (lS7->). 



Fuligula capensis, Smith, Cat. South Afr. Mus. p. .36, n. .3.'^0 (1837) 

 (descr. nulla) ; Sch/rff. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 31 (1860) ; Sclat, 

 P. Z. S. 1880, p. 5l'6; Rrhnw. Orn. Cpntralh.'\9.S2, p. o; id. To</. 

 zool. Giirt. p. 46 (1882): Tri.-<tr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 48 (1889); 

 Hnrtert, Kat. Voqelsnmml. p. 232 (1801); Rchnw. Viiy. Deutsch- 

 Ost-Afr. p. 26 (Kibiiya, Massai) (1894). 



