ANAS. 189 
156. DENDROCYGNA GUTTULATA Wallace. 
SPOTTED TREE DUCK, 
Dendrocygna guttulata Wattace, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 36; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 215; McGrecor and WorcrEsTEeR, Hand-List 
(1906), 37. 
Dendrocycna guttata Satvapvori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 164, 
ale 
Basilan (McGregor); Mindanao (Platen). Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, 
Tenimber Islands. 
“Adult male and female——Upper part of head dark brown; a black 
line along hind neck; back and wings dusky brown; feathers of back, 
scapulars, and wing-coverts edged with pale brown; lores brown; super- 
ciliary stripe, sides of head, and upper part of neck grayish, with dusky 
cross-lines, giving a mottled appearance ; chin and throat uniform whitish ; 
lower part of neck dusky with white spots; rump brown; upper tail- 
coverts black, basal ones broadly barred with white; upper breast rufous- 
brown, each feather with a white spot at the tip; lower breast and abdo- 
men whitish, with faint dusky lines across; feathers of flanks with large, 
white, round spots, the longer feathers are almost barred with black; 
under tail-coverts whitish, with black bars ; quills brown; tail almost black. 
‘Bill black; tarsi and feet ashy, more or less tinged with reddish; iris 
brown or chestnut. (D’Albertis.) Length, about 432; wing, 215; tail, 
74; culmen, 41; tarsus, 41. 
““Voung.—Feathers of the flanks paler and with the white spots elon- 
gated and lanceolated.? (Schlegel.)” (Salvadort.) 
A male from Basilan, December 26, 1906, measures: Length, 444; 
wing, 216; tail, 67; exposed culmen, 45; tarsus, 45; middle toe with 
claw, 71.- 
Of the earlier collectors Platen was the only one to secure this tree 
duck in the Philippines; more recently it has been taken in Basilan but 
it appears to be a rare species. 
Genus ANAS Linneus, 1758. 
Bill of moderate length, the sides nearly parallel; wings long and 
pointed; a wide band of metallic color across the secondaries forming 
the speculum ; tail pointed but not of great length. 
157. ANAS LUZONICA Fraser. 
PHILIPPINE MALLARD, 
Anas luzonica FRASER, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1839), 113; Satvapori, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 205; SHarpr, Hand-List (1899), 1, 
216; McGrercor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 37. . 
Du-ma-ras’, Manila; da-mu-l’og, Ticao. 
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor) ; 
Luzon (Cuming, Jagor, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Worcester) ; Marinduque 
