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of eleven , caught iu the Marfa River , about five miles off 

 its mouth. As I was unable at that time to make any 

 excursions, I could not try to get the parents of this 

 brood, that was about three weeks old. Their heads were 

 entirely covered with gray feathers, also the hind neck. 

 Crown , chest , sides of the rump , outside of tibiae , axil- 

 laries , lower back and tail-feathers dark brown , edged with 

 fulvous , the back , for a great part covered with down , 

 ashy gray, tinged with fulvous, throat, sides of head and 

 neck , lower breast , abdomen , vent and under tail-feathers 

 silvery gray. 



Iris gray ; bill flesh-color , with the ridge brown ; feet gray. 



Sarcidiornis melanotos. 



Anas melanotos, Penn. Zool. Ind. p. 21, pi. 11. 



Sarcidiornis africana , Eyton , Monogr. Anat. p. 103 ; — 

 Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 246; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p, 496. 



Anas melanota, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 74. 



Sarcidiornis melanotus , F. & Hartl. Vög. 0. Afr. p. 799. 



Hab. Indian Continent, Ceylon, Madagascar, Western 

 and Eastern Africa. 



This species was many times observed in two to five 

 specimens together on the sand-banks before the mouth 

 of the Sugary River, but we were never fortunate enough 

 to approach within gun-shot. 



When observed , they have a half erect , ungraceful at- 

 titude. 



Dendrocygna viduata. 



Dendrocygna viduata (L.) , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 247 ; — 

 Schl. Mus. P.-B., Anseres , p. 90 ; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 499. 



Hab. Tropical parts of Africa and of America. 



Collected near Robertsport. 



All my specimens were collected on the sand-banks and 

 islands before the mouths of the Grand Cape Mount-, 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. VII. 



