352 ANATIDJE. 



? Fuligiila lateralis, Smith, Cat. South-Afr. Mus. p. 30, n. 331 (1837) 



(descr. nulla). 

 Nyroca brunnea, Eyl. Mun. Anat. p. 161, pi. 23 (1838) ; G. R. Gr. 



Gen. B. iii. p. 621, n. 6 (1844) ; Strickl.^ Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 160 (Damara); Bolle, J. f. 0. 1866, p. 165 (Zool. Gard.) ; 



Layarcl, Birds 8. Afr. p. 35.5 (1857) ; Eyt. Syn. A?iat. p. 119 



(1869) ; At/res, Ibis, 1871, p. 266 ; Boc. Join. Ac. Sc. Lisboa, 1871, 



p. 278, 1872, p. 70. 

 Fuligula mariloides, Blyth {nee Yarrell), J. A. S. B. xii. p. 180 



(Cape of Good Hoiw) (1843) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 386, 



n. 1786 (1849). 

 Nja-oca capensis, Pucher. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1850, p. 548 ; Hartl. 



'J.f. O. 1855, p. 419. 

 Aythia capensis, Bj). Compt. Rend, xliii p. 651, n. 141 (1856) ; G. R. 



Gr. Hand-list, \n. p. 86, n. 10962 (1871); Gum. in Anderss. B. 



Bamara-L., p. 342 (1872) ; Boc. Jorn. Ac. Sc. Lisbon, 1873, p. 290 ; 



id. J. f. 0. 1876, p. 294 (Mossamedes) ; id. Orn. Any. p. 505 



(1881) ; Butl, Feild. ^ Reid, Zooloff. 1882, p. 428 (Natal) ; Dubois, 



Bull. Mus. Roy. H. N. de Belg. iv. p. 150, n. 195 (Tanganyika) 



(1886); Kuschel, J.f. 0. 1895, p. 84 (ega-). 

 Fuligula brunnea, Gum, Ibis, 1864, p. 355 (Natal) ; Sclat. List Vert. 



An. 8th ed. p. 440 (1883) ; Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. (2) i. 



p. 248 (Shoa) (1884). 

 Fuligula nvroca, Chainn. (nee Giildensi.) Trav. in South Afr., App. 



p. 423 (1868). 

 Fuligula meridionalis, Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 233, note 



(1891). 

 Aythya capensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 478 (Zomba). 



Adult male. Head and upper part of the neck dark chestnut 

 with a purple gloss, upper part of the head and nape darker, almost 

 black ; lower neck black, changing into brown-black on the upper 

 parts ; mantle and scapulars finely speckled with pale brown ; 

 breast brown, changing into glossy greyish brown on the lower 

 parts ; flanks with a reddish-brown tinge ; wings glossy blackish 

 brown, the smaller wing-coverts finely speckled with paler brown ; 

 a white speculum on the secondaries, bounded posteriorly by a 

 broad black band ; tertials with a dark green gloss ; outer primaries 

 blackish brown, greyish brown on the inner web, which has the 

 inner half white ; the inner primaries gradually become white also 

 on the outer web; all have the tip brown-black; under wing- 

 coverts, except the central ones which are wliitish, and axillaries 

 brown ; tail brown : bill bluish grey {Antinori), or " lead-coloured, 

 except the nail, which is black, as are also the legs, toes, and 

 webs ; iridcs cherry-coloured " {Andersson). Total length 19"5 

 inches, wing 9-12, tail 3, ciUmen 1-9, tarsus 1-3. 



Female. General colour brown, paler on the uuderparts ; the 

 feathers at the base of the bill, throat, sides of the upper parts of 

 the neck, and a band behind the eyes whitish ; scapulars, feathers 

 of the back and of the flanks with paler edges ; wings as in the 

 male, but paler, and less white on the inner web of the outer 

 primaries and at the base of the inner ones. 



Hab. Southern Africa from the Cape to Angola on the West, and 

 to Shoa on the East. 



