490 



9. Anas fusca. 



Anas fusca (Teal), Elhnan (nee Linn.), Zool. 1861, p. 7471 ; G. R. Gr. 

 Ibis, 1862, p. 241 (note). 



Hah. New Zealand. 



10. Anas fttscescens. 



Brown Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 565, n. 499 (Newfoundland) 



(1785) ; Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 486, n. 39 (1785). 

 Anas fuscescens, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 534, n. 104 (1788) ; Lath. Lid. 



Orn. ii. p. 849, n. 46 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. v. p. 109 (1816) ; Dum. 



Diet. So. Nat. vi. p. 385 (1817) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 106 



(1824) ; Men: in Ersch u. Grub. Encycl. sect. i. vol. xxxv. p. 37 



(1841); Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 352 (1872). 



" Length 16 inches ; beak large, stout at its base, bluish, with 

 its tip black; the nostrils are placed near the end (I); the head 

 and neck are very pale brown ; the lower part of the last, and the 

 breast the same ; the feathers edged with ferruginous ; the wings 

 ashy grey ; the speculum blue, tipped with white ; the tail and legs 

 dusky. 



" Inhabits Newfoundland.'" {Stephens.) 



11. Anas hina. 



Anas chineusis, Osbeck, Voy. ii. p. 33. 



Hina Teal, Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 558, n. 98 (China) (1785). 



Anas hina, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 523, n. 93 (1788) (e.v Latham) : Lath. 



Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 876, u. 109 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Me'th. i. p. 158 



(1791) ; Vieill. N. B. v. p. 120 (1816) ; Dum. Diet. Sc. Nat. vi. 



p. 395 (1817). 

 Querquedula hina, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 152 (1824) (a doubtful 



species); G. R. Gr. Gen. £. iii. p. 616, n. 11 (1845); B]^- i-'ompi. 



Rend, xliii. p. 650, n. 95 ? (1856). 



A Chinese Duck, which has been identified by Dumont with ALv 

 fjalerieulata, and by Gray with Nettion crecca ! 



12. Anas juncea. 



Anas juncea seu graminea, i^/v'sc^. Toy. t. (xvi.) 173 (cJ) (1743- 



1763). 

 Anas juncea, Bechst. Gem. Nat. Deutschl. iii. p. 669 (1791) ; id. Orn. 



Taschenb. ii. p. 446 (1803) ; id. Voy. Deutschl. ii. 1, p. 415, iv. 2, 



p. 1158 (1809). 



Perhaps an imaginary bird, or an accidental variet of Nettion 

 crecca : the entire head and neck green ; breast chestnut , body grey ; 

 wings as in A. boscns. 



I'd. Anas ltjkida. 



Anas lurida, S. G. Gniel. Reise Russl. i. p. 70 (1770), ii. p. 182, t. 16 

 (1774) ; G?n. S. N. i. 2, p. 531, n. 101 (1788) ; Bomi. Ene. Meth. 

 i. p. 156 (1791) ; Dum. Diet. Sc. Nat. vi. p. 378 (1817). 



