434 ANATID^. 



Man.N. Am. B. p. 110 (1887) ; Leverk.J.f. 0. 1887, p. 85 (var.) ; 

 Stejneg. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 138; Ninni, Bollett. del 

 Natural. 1888, p. 137 (Venetian) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1888, p. 351 (Great 

 Liakoff Isl.) ; Rartw. J.f. 0. 1889, p. 153 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 

 p. 47 (Labrador) (1889) ; Seeb. B. Jap. Emp. p. 256 (Kiirile Is.) 

 (1890); Rchmv. J.f. O. 1890, p. 83; Walter, ibid. pp. 235, 236, 

 238, 239, 243, 245, 247 (E. Spitsbergen) ; Macfarl. Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1891, p. 422 (Franklin Bay) ; Hartei-f, Kat. Vogelsamml. 

 p. 233 (1891) ; Southwell, Tr. Nono. Soc. v. pp. 68, 60 (Norfolk) 

 (1891) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1892, p. 28 (Heligoland) ; Hatch, B. of Minnes. 

 p. 68 (1892) ; Allen, Auk, 1893, p. 123 ; W. S. J., Forest and 

 Stream, 1893, p. 96 (Maine) ; Mackaij, Auk, 1894, p. 224 ; Whit- 

 field, ibid. p. 323 ; Collett, Mindre Medd. vedr. Norges Fuglef. 

 1881-92, p. 287 (1894). 



Platypus spectabilis, Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. Vog. ii. p. 816 

 (1824) ; Biick, J.f. 0. 1853, p. 371. 



Fuligula spectabilis, Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. p. 389, n. 332 (1826) ; 

 id. Syn. p. 389 (1828) ; id. Isis, 1832, p. 1188 ; Aud. Orn. Biogr. 

 iii. p. 523, pi. 276 ; id. Syn. p. 291 (1839) ; Selys-L. Faun. Belg. 

 i. p. 143 (1842) ; Aud. B. Am. vi. p. 347, pi. 404 (1843) ; Be Kay, 

 N. Y. Zool. ii. p. 334 (1844) ; Giraiid, B. Long 1st. p. 333 (1844) ; 

 Degl. Orn. Eur. ii. p. 466 (1849) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 

 p. 13 (1866) ; Palmen, J.f. O. 1876, p. 57 (Finland) ; Brandt, 

 J.f. O. 1891, p. 268 (Sitka and Aleutians). 



Fuligula (Somateria) spectabilis, Nutt. Man. ii. p. 414 (1834) ; 

 Bra7idt, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (6) (Sc. Nat.) vi. 1849, p. 5 (1847). 



Somateria pectoralis (errore ?), Licht. Nomend. Av. p. 103 (1854) 

 (Greenland). 



Somateria megarbynchus, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 389 (1855) ; id. Nau- 

 mannia, 1855, p. 299. 



Somateria altensteini, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 389 (1855) ; id. Naumannia, 

 1855, p. 299. 



"Anas superba, Leach, Syst. Cat. 1816* ," Jide B., B., Sf R. Water- 

 Birds N. Ain. p. 83 (1884). 



Somateria (Erionetta) spectabilis, Coues, Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. 

 pp. 709, 712, n. 736 (1884). 



Adult male. Top of the head and the occiput French -grey, which on 

 the occiput is darker and is surrounded below with a blackish line ; 

 a black line of feathers surrounds the base of the bill from the 

 culmen to the gape ; a black spot under the eyes ; cheeks white, 

 tinged with sea-green above, this colour extends in a line of a 

 crescentic shape, together with a white one, on the sides of the head ; 

 throat, upper neck, and upper back white ; on the throat there is a 

 black V-shaped mark pointing towards the chin ; breast creamy buff; 

 lower back, middle of the rump, upper tail-coverts, and lower parts 

 brown-black ; on the sides of the rump a large white patch ; upper 

 wing-coverts white, but the point of the wing and the greater 

 coverts, like the scapulars aud quills, brown-black ; scapulars very 

 broad, with the outer web ending in a sickle form ; tertials pointed 

 and bent downward ; under wing-coverts dark grey, tipped with 

 white ; axillaries white ; tail brown-black : bill, with base of the 



* The name Anas superba is not to be found in Leach's Catalogue. 



