452 ANATID.I. 



Adult male. Head, throat, and neck black ; breast, back, and 

 flanks rich chestnut ; rump brownish black, freckled or barred with 

 irregular pale reddish lines ; upper tail-coverts tinged with chest- 

 nut ; belly and under tail-coverts brown, with the tips of the 

 feathers silvery rufous-whitc ; wings and tail dark brown; upper 

 wing-coverts and secondaries sprinkled with paler points ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries grey, edged with white : "iridesvery 

 dark brown : bill light blue ; front and inner side of the tarsi and 

 toes French-grey, outside of the tarsi and webs blackish grey " 

 (Gould). Total length about 16 inches, wing 6-2, tail 2-6, culmen 

 1-6, tarsus 1-25. 



Female. Brown ; upper parts darker, marked with zigzag lines 

 and freckles of a pale buff- rufous colour ; lighter and more greyish 

 brown on the under surface, where the feathers have silvery 

 yellowish tips : " bill dark olive-green, the under mandible lighter 

 than the upper ; irides,legs, and feet as in the male " (Gould). Size 

 about the same as that of the male. 



Bab. Southern and Western Australia and Tasmania. 



a,b. (S 2 ad. st. W. Australia. Purchased. 



r, d. cS 2 ad. st. New South Wales. Australian Museum [P.]. 



e. (S imm. sk. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



58. BIZIURA*. 



Type. 



Biziura, Leach, MS.; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 221 



(1824) B. lobata. 



Hvdvobate?, Tem7n. Fl. Col. 400 (livr. C8, 182G) (nee 

 'Boie, 1822) B. lobata. 



lianrje. Confined to Australia. 



1. Biziura lobata. 



Anas lobata, Shaw, Nat. Misc. viii. pi. 25-5 (1790); Dum. Diet. Sc. 



Nat. vi. p. 387 (1817). 

 Lobated Duck, Lath. Gen. Syn. Siippl. ii. p. 349 (1801). 

 Anas carunculata, Vieill. (nee LUig.) N. D. v. p. 109 (1816) ; id. 



Enc. Mith. i. p. 3-56, pi. 236. f. 2 (1823). 

 Biziura nova hollandia?, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 222 (1824). 

 Hydrobates lobatus, Temm. PI. Col. 406 (livr. 68, 1826) ; Less. 



Man. d'Oni. ii. p. 414 (1828); id. Tr. d'Orn. p. 630 (1831); 



Breton, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 19 (habits) ; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. 



ix. p. 529 (1837) : id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 718 (1838). 

 Biziura lohzXa. Eyt. M on. Anat. p. 168 (1838) ; G. R. Gr. Lkt Gen. 



B. p. 75 (1840) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. p. 96 (1841) ; id. List B. Brit. 



Mas. iii. p. 145 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 627 (1844) ; Gould, B. 



Aiistr. vii. pi. 18 (pt. xvi., 1844) ; Bchnb. Syn. Av., Natatores, 



t. 81. ft". 145-146 et 904 (1845); B/yth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



* Byton (Ann. & Mag. N. H. -pii. p. 177, 1841) has the following remarks 

 aljout B. lobata : — " There is a strong resemblance to the totipalmate division of 

 Water-birds; tra/:kca ]ike that of a Cormorant, and also furnished with tlie 

 same muscles of voice. Tongue and digestive organs resemble those of Clangida. 

 Melanctta, and Nyrocn. Skeleton resembles that of a Gannet, except the head. 

 Posterior margin of sternum like tliat of a Sula." 



