appendix. 489 



4. Anas bisInuata. 

 Anas bisinuata, Herm. Obg. Zool. p. 143 (1804). 



5. Anas boeealis. 



Gulaund Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 572 (1785) (Iceland) ; Lath. 

 Syn. iii. 2, p. 465, n. 25 (1785). 



Anas borealis, Om. S. N. i. 2, p. 512, n. 69 (Iceland) (1788) ; Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. ii. p. 843, n. 30 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. lOG 

 (1824). ^' /- 'F 



Anser borealis, Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 122 (1790) ; Tieill. N. D. 

 xxiii. p. 338 (1818). 



Probably the same as Somaieria moUissima. 



6. Anas cana. 



Anas cana, Lazdr (nee Gm.), Erdehji Muz. Egilet Evhonyvei, i. pt. 2, 

 p. 73 (1860); id. Verhajidl. u. Mitth. d. siebenh. Ver. f. Natunc. 

 10 Jahrg. p. 246 (1859) ; Daw/. 8f Harvie Broun, Ibis, 1875, p. 430 

 (=A. marmorata?). 



" Size of A. querqiiedida , but more plumpy and the head broader 

 head, neck, and upper parts of a grey colour (like that of the "Wild 

 Dove) ; the breast, abdomen, and the under surface of the wings 

 snow-white ; sj^eciduyn rjreen ; bill and feet black." 



Hab. Coromandel and Transylvania (!). 



Messrs. Dauford and Harvie Brown {h c.) think that the bird 

 described by Lazar may have been Anas marmorata, but the green 

 speculum is against such identification. 



7. Anas chinganensis. 



Anas chinganensis, Schjjerck, ' Bossii/a dailnayo vosfoJ>a ' {Zajn'ski of 

 the Imp. Buss. Gevyr. S'oc. St, Petersb. vol. xiv. 1885) {of. Ibis, 

 1887, p. 254) (descr. nulla). 



8. Anas dominicana. 



Canard Dominiquain du Cap de Bonne Esp^rance, Sonner. Voy. aux 



/wf/. ii. p. 221 (1782). 

 Dominican Duck, Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 525, n. 70 (1785). 

 Anas dominicana, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 536, n. 109 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 



Orn. ii. p. 859, n. 66 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 133 (1790) ; 



Vieill. A'. I). V. p. 112 (1816); Emn. Diet. Sc . Nat. vi. p. 379 



(1817) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 109 (1824). 



" Size of the Wild Duck ; beak black ; the face and throat are 

 white; from the beak, passing through thl eye, is a black streak, 

 ending in an angle behind ; the hind part of the head, the neck, 

 and the breast black ; the back and lesser wing-coverts are of a 

 deep ashy grey, barred with two bands of very pale grey ; the belly 

 and vent are pale grey ; the legs are black. 



" Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope." (StepJiens.) 



