328 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on a Teal from Kerguelen's Island. 



7. Nyctea, Steph. 1826. 

 1. Nyctea scandiaca (L.) {Strix nyctea ct S. scandiaca, L.). 



8. Glaucidium^ Boie, 1826. 

 1. Glaucidium passerinum (L.). 



XXIV. — Description of an apparently new Species of Teal from 

 Kerguelen's Island. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 



&c., of the Zoological Department, British Museum. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton has brought back with him some spe- 

 cimens of a small Duck, obtained in Kerguelen's Island during 

 the stay of the recent Transit Expedition. I find that some 

 specimens were procured in the same locality by the Antarctic 

 Expedition ; but tliey have never been determined {cf. Gray, 

 List of Grallse, Gallinaj, and Anseres, p. 138), and do not 

 appear to have received a title in the ' Hand-list.' I there- 

 fore propose to describe this bird as 



QUERQUEDULA EATONI, Sp. n. 



^ . supra brunneus, plumis plurimis gi'iseo marginatis, rn- 

 fesceuti-fulvo maculatis aut fasciatis : scapularibus nigri- 

 cantioribus : pileo paullo rufescentiore plumis nigro 

 medialiter striatis ; facie laterali et gutture albicantibus, 

 minute nigro striolatis, mento fulvescenti-albo : corpore 

 reliquo subtiis albicante, brunneo marmorato, plumis 

 plerisque pectoralibus versus basin griseo-brunneis aut 

 medialiter brunneo striatis : hypochondriis brunneis, 

 albido terminatis et rufescenti-fulvo transfasciatis : sub- 

 caudalibus rufescenti-fulvis, nigro adumbratis, longi- 

 oribus nigricautibus fulvo terminatis : tectricibus alanim 

 superioribus cinerascenti-branneis, majoribus pallide badio 

 terminatis, fasciam alarera formantibus : remigibus cine- 

 rascenti-bruunois, sceundariis extiis purpureo bronzinis 

 albido terminatis, speculum alare bronzinum vix sub 

 eerta luce olivascente nitens exhibentibus : secundario 

 proximo nigricante vel aspectu externo viridi nitente, 

 medialiter cinerascente strigato, albo apicato : sceun- 

 dariis interioribus nigricantibus extvis pallide brunnes- 

 centibus albo limbatis : rectricibus mediis nigricantibus, 

 reliquis brunneis albo marginatis, nonnuUis rufescenti- 



