466 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I ZOOLOGY. 



III. p. 81, no. 10,636 (1871); Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVII, p. 



282 (1895); Sharpe, Handlist B. I. p. 220 (1899); Martens, Hamb. 



Magalh. Sammelr. Vog. p. 25 (1900: Falkland Islands). 

 Anas [Dafila) baha^nensis, Burm. J. f. O. i860, p. 266: id. La Plata 



Reise, II, p. 515 (1861 : Uruguay). 

 Daphila uroplmsiaiius. Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. Part X. 



p. 247 (1888 : Bahia Blanca). 



General Description. 



5/>^.— Adult male, 8677, P. U. O. C. La Plata, May, 1897. Total 

 length, 19.75 inches. 



Wing, 9.2. 



Culmen, 1.9. 



Tail (longest feathers), 5.1. 



Tarsus, 1.45. 



The female averages a little smaller than the male ; there is too a notice- 

 able individual variation in size which does not correlate with sex. 



Color. — (Male cited.) 



General color : Chestnut and cinnamon varying in shade, but spotted 

 with dusky brown or black markings on each feather ; the tail cinnamon. 



Fig. 234. Fig. 235. 



Poecilonetta bahamensis. Male. P. U. O. C. The same : bill and head from above. 



8669. Profile of head and neck. Reduced. Reduced. 



Head : Upper half of head, forehead, crown and occiput, to just below 

 the eyes, chestnut, each feather marked with a round blackish spot ; the 

 rest of the head pure white. 



Neck : Above, the neck is concolor with the dark part of the head ; 

 below, it is white. 



