QUERQUEDULA HOTTENTOTTA. 757 
colour to those of A. wanthorhyncha. Axis, 2" 6”’; diam., 1” 9’. 
Laid in November. 
Mr. Rickard notes its occurrence near Port Elizabeth, and at East 
London he says several were procured up the Buffalo River. From 
Kingwilliamstown Captain Trevelyan writes : “The commonest Duck 
of the Buffalo River, but they are not numerous: very rarely found 
on vleys.” ‘In Natal,” says Mr. Ayres, “we seldom find. more 
than two of these birds together: they frequent the rocky streams 
in the interior of the country, and are by no means plentiful, being 
exceedingly shy and wary. In the moulting-season we have shot 
them so denuded of feathers that they could not fly a yard, and 
depended for their safety on diving, and hiding under the banks, 
at which they are very expert, and it is difficult to frighten them 
from their hiding-places.” Though not obtained in the vicinity of 
Newcastle, this Duck was rather common at the Ingagane River, 
about twelve miles away, where Captain Reid shot several in June 
and July. They were very shy, and generally found singly or in 
pairs in the river, not in the vleys. Mr. Buckley only met with 
them south of Pretoria. Mr. Ayres found the species on the Mooi 
River, but not common, and he has also sent it from the Transvaal. 
On the Zambesi Sir John Kirk states that it it was “‘ nowhere vely 
common, but widely distributed, occurring in single pairs. The 
first appearance is with the rains, and it remains to breed. After 
the end of April it is not seen. The young may be obtained in 
March.” 
Mr. Andersson observes : “I have never seen this Duck in Damara 
Land, and only on one or two occasions in Great Namaqua Land ; 
but I have reason to think that it is less unfrequent during the 
rainy season in some parts of the latter country, chiefly along the 
southern course of the Great Fish River and its tributaries.” 
Throughout of a dark brown, finely mottled on the head and 
neck with dirty-white, and marked on the wings and tail with large 
pure white spots; vent edged with white; across the wing is a 
bright green bar, edged with black and white; the black nearest 
the green. Length, 22”; wing, 10’’; tail, 5’’. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves, pl. 97. 
730. QuERQUEDULA HoTrENtoTTA, Smith. Hottentot Teal. 
Sir Andrew Smith, whose description we quote, states that the 
