4 GO 



3. Merganetta turneri. 



Merganetta leucogenys, Sclat. i§- Salv. {nee Tsch.) P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 157 (S. Peru, Tinta, Elvers of the Cuzcan Andes). 



Merganetta turneri, Sclaf. ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 600 ; iid. E.rot. 

 Orn. p. 199, 1. 100 (1869) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 91, n. 10726 

 (1871) ; Sclat. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 131 (1873) ; iid. 

 P. Z. S. 1874, p. 679: iid. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 407 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 

 1880, p. 532 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. p. 488 (1886). 



Biziura turneri, Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 468 (1872). 



Rhaphipterus tmueri, Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 3. 



Adult male. Neck and sides of the head white ; pileum black, the 

 black continued in a black nuchal band ; a narrow band surrounding 

 the bill, a spot before the ej-es, and a band from the eyes along the 

 sides of the neck black ; a broad superciliary band extending on both 

 sides of the back of the neck white ; lower part of the neck, upper 

 breast, and flanks black ; feathers of the back and scapulars black, 

 edged on both sides with rufous-brown ; rump lead-colour, sides of 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts undulated with narrow black and 

 white-grey lines ; lower breast and abdomen dark reddisb grey, the 

 feathers with broad mesial black streaks ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts almost entirely black, only some feathers partly undulated 

 with black and grey lines ; wings exactly as in M. armafa ; tail 

 brown, with the shaft paler above, white underneath. Total length 

 about 17 inches, wing 7-4 (not 6-4 as stated in the original de- 

 scription), tail 5, culmen 1-2, tarsus 1"6. 



Female. Similar to the female of M. armata, only the cinnamon- 

 colour of the underparts paler. 



Hah. Andes of Southern Peru. 



a. c? ad. sk. Tinta, S. Peru {Turner). 



b. 5 ad. sk. Tinta, S. Peru, July {H. 



Whitely). 



Salvin-Hodman Coll. | 

 Sidviu-Godnian Coll. )' 

 (Types of the species.) 



4. Merganetta garleppi. 



? Merganetta leucogenvs, Boeck, Mitth. orn. J'er. in Wien, 1884, 



p. 164 (Bolivia) (Extract, p. 25). 

 Rhaphipterus leucogenys, part., Rchmv. Oni. Centralbl. 1882, p. 3 



(Bolivia). 

 Merganetta garleppi, Perl. Orn. Monatsber. ii. p. 110 (1894) 



(Bolivia and Tucunian). 



Adult male (type). Very similar to the male of M. armata on 

 the upper parts, having the feathers of the back edged with white ; 

 but differs in having the edges of the scapulars not pure white, but 

 grey, sprinkled with black dots : no black band across the breast, 

 which is whitish, changing into pale reddish white on the lower 

 parts ; sides of the head white, with a small black spot anteriorly 

 to the eyes as in M. cohimhiana ; under wing-coverts uniform lead- 

 grey ; under tail-coverts blacker than in 31. columbiana, to which 

 perhai^s it is most nearly related. The wing-speculum apparently 



