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Dates of HatcJiiug of Chilian Pintail. (In the Zoological 

 Gardens, London.) 



1872. June nth. 1876. March loth. 



" 22d. " July 24th. 



1873. April 28th. 1877. May ist. 

 May 9th. " June 15th. 



" " -31st. " " 2ISt. 



" June 1 6th. " " 26th. 



1874. April 22d. 1878. May loth. 

 May 9th. " " 23d. 



" " 14th. 1879. June 23d. 



1875. April 26th. " August 7th. 

 May nth. 



(P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1880, pp. 215-216.) 



"Male. La Plata, Buenos Aires, Arg. Rep., Nov. 9, 1882. 



"Iris dark brown. 



"A common Duck, which frequents the lagoons about here in flocks." 

 (E. W. White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 42.) 



"Male: Talcahuano, September 1879. Bill yellow, with black culmen ; 

 eyes brown; legs and feet grey and black." (Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 14.) 



Genus PCECILONETTA Eyton. 



Type. 



PcBcilonitta, Eyton [ = Poecilonetta), Mon. Anat. p. 31 

 (1838); Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 281 

 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-list Bds. i. p. 220 (1899) . P. bahamensis. 



Pcecilonitta, G. R. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 74 (1840). 



Poscilonetta, Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool. Aves, p. 61 (1842-46). 



Geographical Range. — The West Indies and Bahamas; South America; 



Africa, south of the Desert of Sahara. 



PcECiLONETTA BAHAMENSIS (Linnaeus). 



Ilathera Duck, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol. I. p. 93 pi. 93 (1754). 



Anas bahamensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 11 (1758); Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, 



p. 119 (Chili); Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 54 (Chili, ^g%). 

 Anas ilathera, Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 151 (1791). 



