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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Espartilla, common, Feb. to Oct.); James, New List, Chil. B. p. 9 

 (1892); Aplin, Ibis, 1894, P- 200 (Uruguay); Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. XXVII. p. 303 (1895); Lane, Ibis, 1897, p. 193 (Sacaya, breed- 

 ing; Sitani) ; Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 676 (1898: Ovalle, 

 Oct.: La Serena); Sharpe, Hand-list, B. I. p. 221 (1899); Carabajal, 

 La Patagonia, Part II. p. 281 (1900); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) 

 XX. p. 632 (1900: Punta Arenas, May); Martens, Hamb. Magalh. 

 Sammelr. Vog. p. 25 (1900; Patagonia: Falkland Islands). 



Anas [Pterocyanea) ccendeata, Burm. J. f. O. i860, p. 266 (Mendoza : 

 Parana). 



Pterocyanea cyanoptera, Burm. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 368 (Argent. Rep.); id. 

 An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. Part X. p. 247 (1888: Patagonia). 



General description. 



5/^^. _ Adult male, P. U. O. C. 8668; La Plata, Argentina, July, 1898, 

 S. Pozzi, Collector. 



Total length, about 18.25 inches. 



Wing, 7.95. 



Culmen, 2.1. 



Tail, 3.6. 



Tarsus, 1.3. 



The female is a little smaller than the male and wholly unlike in color. 



Fig. 239. 



Fig. 240. 



Querquedula cyanoptera. Male. P. U. O. 

 C. 8668. Profile of head and neck. Re- 

 duced. 



Querquedula cyanoptera. Male. P. U. O. 

 C. 8668. Crown of head and bill from above. 

 Reduced. 



Color. — (Male cited.) General color: Bright cinnamon-chestnut, varied 

 with dusky on the mantle, and with the entire shoulder pastel-blue ; the 

 outer web of two or more of the outer scapulars similar in tone. 



