45. FULIGULA. 369 



Mus. p. 143 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 021, n. 6 (1844) ; id. Voy. 

 Ereb. S,- Ten:, Bird.s. p. 16, pi. 18 (1840); JRchnb. Sijn. Ao., 

 Natatores, t. 77. f. 890 (18—) (e.v Ereb. Sf Terror) ; G. R. Gr. 

 Ibi", 1862, p. 242 ; Hector, Neiv Zeal. E.rhib. p. 277 (Otajjo) (1860) ; 

 Schleij. Mus. V.-B., Anseres, p. 29 (1866) ; Potts, Trans. X. Z. 

 Inst. ii. 1809, p. 73 (1870) ; Hutton, Ibis, 1870, p. ;{9o (Auckland) ; 

 Fimch, J. f. O. 1870, p. 358 ; Mutton, Cat. B. New Zeal. p. 38 

 (1871) ; f ravers, Trans. N. Z. List. iv. 1871, p. 208 (1872) ; Finsch, 

 J. f. O. 1872, p. 188; Buller, Hist. B. Neio Zeal. p. 259, pi. 27. f. 2 

 (1873) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1874, p. 203 ; Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. ^- Terr., 

 Birds, ^. 31 (1875); fSclat. P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 527; Finsch, Ibis, 

 1882, pp. 392, 397 ; Buller, Man. B. Neio Zeal. p. 72 (1882) ; id. 

 Hist. B. Netv Zeal. 2iid ed. ii. p. 274, pi. xlv. (lower fig.) (1888); 

 Smith, Trans. N. Z. Inst. xxi. 1888, p. 221 (Lake Brunner) 

 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 48 (1889) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 545 (Ciiatham Isl.). 



Anas atricilla, Foist. Icon. ined. t. 79; id. Descr. An. {ed. Licht.) 

 p. 95 (1844). 



Marila novre zelandire, Bp. Onnpt. Bend, xliii. p. 051, n. 137 (1850). 



? Anas atra, Ellman, Zootog. 1861, p. 7471. 



Fulix uoviB seelaudiae, G. Ii. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 86, n. 10688 

 (1871). 



Adult male. Head and neck black, glossed with purple above, 

 with green on the sides ; chin white ; upper parts and breast black, 

 the former more or less glossed with green, upper back and scapulars 

 minutely dusted with white ; breast freckled with white on the 

 lower portion ; abdomen brown, the edges of the feathers paler 

 or dull whitish ; sides of the vent and under tail-coverts black ; 

 sides and long feathers overlapping the thighs brown with a chest- 

 nut tinge ; wings glos.sj- black ; secondaries with a narrow white 

 speculum, broadly edged with black, each feather has the outer 

 edge of the outer web narrowly edged with black ; primaries grey, 

 with the tips and also the outer webs of the first three or four 

 black : marginal under wing-coverts dark brown, the inner ones 

 and axillaries while ; tail dark brown : " irides bright yellow ; bill 

 ash-blue, tipped with black ; legs and toes grey, membranes black, 

 bordered near each toe with grey " (Hutton). Total length about 

 17 inches, wing 8, tail 2'7, culmen l'6o, tarsus 1'25. 



Female. " A broad band surrounding the base of the upper man- 

 dible white ; head, neck, breast, and sides of the body blackish 

 l)rown, changing to castaneous on the lower part of the breast and 

 flanks, on the alxlomen lighter brown, mottled with fulvous white, 

 darker brown in the ventral region ; under tail-coverts blackish 

 brown, largely marked with white ; shoulders dark brown, margined 

 with ca.staneous ; back and upper surface of wings blackish brown, 

 glossed with green ; speculum as in the male ; tail dark brown." 

 (Bullr.) 



There is no specimen in the British 3Iuseum which would answer 

 to the above description, but one supposed to be a female is as 

 follows : — Head, neck, upper parts, and wings brown ; breast and 

 sides dull chestnut-brown; abdomen aud under tail-coverts whitish, 



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