454 



/-/. d" 2 «icl. et 



pull. sk. 

 fc. 2 ad. sk. 



/, »i. ^ 2 ad. sk. 

 w. 2 ad. sk. 

 o,p. S $ ad. sk. 

 ly. 2 ad. sk. 



ANATID^. 



S. Australia. 



Lawrence Kiver 



{Irving). 

 New South Wales. 

 New South Wales. 

 Tasmania. 

 Tasmania. 



C. D. E. Fortnum, Esq. 



rp.]. 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Australian Museum [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Victorian Museum [P.]. 

 Uould Coll. 



Subfamily X. MERGANETTIN^. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Upper mandible with prominent lamellae on 



the edges ; edges ot the upper mandible 

 bent inwards towards the tip ; tail-feathers 

 moderately broad. 

 a'. Edges of the upper mandible at the tip [p. 454. 



not soft; wings with a distinct speculum. 59. Salvadoeina, 

 b'. Edges of the upper mandible at the tip [p. 455. 



soft ; no wing-speculum CO. Hywenol^jiijs, 



b. Upper mandible with no prominent lamellae ; 



edges of the upper mandible not bent 



inwards towards tbe tip; tail-feathers very [p. 457. 



stift' and with very narrow webs (U. Mf,hga>'Ktta, 



59. SALVADORINA. 



lype. 



Ssdyadonna, liothsch. Sj- Hartert, Xuvit. Zool. i. p. 683 



(1894) S. waigiuensis. 



Kange. Confined to ^\"aigiou. 



1. Salvadorina waigiuensis. 



Salvadorina waigiuensis, lioihsch. ^- Hartert, Nuvit. Zool. i. p. 683 

 (1894) ; Jtothsch. op. cit. ii. p. 22, pi. iii. (1895). 



Adult (?) male (type). Head and neck blackish brown, the feathers 

 with narrow pale-brown edges ; chin Avhite ; rest of upper parts 

 black, with a slight gloss, and barred with Avhite ; underparts buflfy 

 white, with round brown spots on the lower part of abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts : sides of body broadly barred with brownish 

 black ; upper wing-coverts black, barred with white ; speculum 

 velvety black, but glossy green on the outer web of the last two 

 secondaries ; a white band anteriorly to the speculum at the tip of 

 the last row of the upper wing-coverts ; a broad white band at the 

 tip of the secondaries, forming a second alar bar; primaries uniform 

 brown ; under wing-coverts black, edged with white, the central 

 ones broadly white at the tip, the greater ones dark grey; axillaries 

 white, spotted with brown along the shaft : bill in dry skin brownish 

 yellow, with the upper part darker, the nail yellowish; feet (in 

 skin) yellowish brown, webs brown. Total length about 17'50 



