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fulvo notatis : tectricibus subalaribus brunneis, infcri- 

 oribus intimis et axillaribus albis brunueo maculatis, 

 tectricibus raajoribus cinerasccntibus alee inferiori conco- 

 loribus : rostro plumbeo, culmine nigro : pedibus cineras- 

 centibus, membranis iuterdigitalibus nigris. Long. tot. 

 15"5, aire 8*5^ caudle 4*8, tarsi 1"2. 

 ? . mari similis sed speculo alari absente^ sccundariis albo 

 terminatis : Cauda brunnea_, rufescenti- fulvo fasciatim 

 marmorata. 

 Hab. in insula Kerguelensi. 



This plain-coloured Teal is allied to Q. gibberifrons and Q. 

 creccoides. From the former it is at once to be distinguished 

 by the fawn-coloured bar on the wing and tbe bronzy specu- 

 lum, the wing-bar being broadly white, and the speculum 

 black in Q. gibberifrons. 



Q. creccoides resembles Q. eatoni in having the fawn-coloured 

 wing-bar; but then the speculum is black, and the greater 

 part of the bill is yellow. 



Q. eatoni also has the axillaries whitish barred with brown, 

 whereas they are quite white in the allied species ; and, more- 

 over, it has remains of rufous-buff bars on most of the fea- 

 thers of the upper surface, the back being uniform in the 

 other species. Altogether the species seems very well pro- 

 nounced. Besides the three examples brought by Mr. Eaton, 

 I have found in the Museum three Kerguelen-Island skins, col- 

 lected during the voyage of the ' Erebus ' and ' Terror/ 



XXV. — On some Birds from Spanish Guiana collected by 

 Herr Miinzberg. By August von Pelzeln. 



H. E. HoDEK, an eminent taxidermist in Vienna, has sub- 

 mitted to me for inspection a small series of birds collected 

 by H. Miinzberg, as it is said, in Guiana. H. Miinzberg 

 travelled in former years in New Granada, and the birds now 

 before me belong mostly to New-Granadan species. There 

 can be little doubt that, by the habitat Spanish Guiana, 

 probably the territory between the Upper Rio Negro and 

 Orinoco, or adjacent parts of New Granada, is meant. 

 The species are the following : — 



