492 ANSERES. 



Anas sirsair, Gm. S. N. i. 2, p. 542, n. 123 (1788) {ex Forsk. II. cc.) ; 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 877, n. 116 (1790); Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. 

 p. 149 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. v. p. loo (1816) ; Bum. Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 vi. p. 394 (1817) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. Ill (1824) ; ? Tsch. 

 J.f. O. 1856, p. 150 (Eurik). 



Hah. Arabia. 



Most probably the female of Nettion crecca. 



18. Anas sp. 



Canard a crete rounre, Cook, 2nd Voy. (New Zealand) ; cf. Vieill. 

 N. D. V. p. Ill (1816). 



19. Anas sp. 



Teal (with red on the wing), Travers, Tr. New Zeal. Inst. i. p. 178 

 (Chatham Islands) (18G9) ; 2nd ed. p. 125 (1875). 



Querquedula sp., Finsch, J.f. O. 1870, p. 357. 



Anas sp.?, Sutton, /6is, 1872, p. 247 (Chatham Islands) ; Finsch, J. 

 f. O. 1874, p. 223. 



20. Anas tobeida. 



Branta torrida, Scop. Ann. i. Hist. Nat. p. 68, n. 66 (1769). 



Anas torrida, Gni. S. N. i. 2, p. 516, n. 75 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 845, n. 33 (1790); Botin. Enc. Meth. i. p. 153 (1791); 



Bechst. Orn. Tascheyib. ii. p. 4-54, n. 37 (1803) ; Dum. Diet. Sc. 



Nat. vi. p. 380 (1817). 



According to Bechstein, probably a hybrid between a Common 

 Duck and Oairina moschata. 



21. Anas xalcuani. 



Anas xalcuani, Vieill. N. D. v. p. 165 (Mexico) (1816) (e.r Her- 

 nandez) . 



22. Chloephaga patagonica. 



Chloephaga patagonica, Mosehy, Notes of a Natural, on the Chal- 

 lenger, p. 551 (Elizabeth Island) (1879). 



The name used by Moseley had never been published before, and 

 I do not know to which species it refers ; perhaps to C. mcujellanica, 

 or to Tachyeres cinereus. 



23. Daftla carib^a. 



Dafila caiibfea, Wiirttemb. Naumannia, 1852, Heft 2, p. 56 (Haiti); 

 Hartl. ibid. 



" Wesentlich verschieden yon D. americnna und nro2^hasiam(s ; 

 grosser wie beide " ( Wurttemherr/). " Sehr wahrscheinlich ueu " 

 {Rartlaub). 



