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to be very similar but darker on the breast, l)eing deep 

 black, whereas the type is more or less smoke-brown on 

 the breast, which probably means that the type is in somewhat 

 immature plumage. Of the two females, No. 20D0is almost 

 identical in colour of plumage with the female of M. twneri, 

 but slightly smaller in wing-measui'ement ; while No. 2092 

 is darker and more chestnut on the under surface with a 

 good deal of white intermixed. Both of these females have 

 on the lower flanks a few concealed white feathers with pale 

 brown cross-bars. 



Merganetta garleppi. 



Meryanetta garleppi Berl. Orn. Monatsb. ii. 1894, p. 110: 

 Cocotal, Bolivia ; Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. 1895, 

 p. 450. 



No. 2941. S ' li-io Blanco, Bolivia, 1300 metres, 25 June, 

 1901. "In rapids.'^ "Iris white; bill and feet red '^ 

 (P. 0. Simons). 



This specimen, which is in the fully adult plumage, is 

 similar to the single specimen in the British Museum which 

 was compared with the type by Count Salvadori when he 

 wrote vol. xxvii. of the Catalogue of Birds. Simons' bird 

 is, however, daiker on the under surface, the dark pattein 

 of the feathers being more extended and deeper in colour. 



Merganetta colombiana. 



Merganetta colombiana Ues Murs, Be v. Zoo). 1845, p. 179 ; 

 Colombia. 



Merganetta columbiana Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. JNIus. xxvii. 

 1895, p. 462; id. & Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino, xv. 1900, 

 No. 368, p. 51 : Ecuador. 



a,b. c? & ? . Papallacta Lake, E. Ecuador r?,000 ft.. 

 May 1914. 



(^ . "Iris brown; feet dingy yellow ; bill orant;e-chrome, 

 black down the ridge of the upper bill "' (//'. Goodfelluw). 



? . " Iris brown ; feet black ; bill dingy urauge-yellow, 

 black down ridge of upper mandible" {W. Goodfellow). 



Both specimens are in fully adult plumage. These 

 examples were presented to the British Museum by 

 Mr. E. J. Brook. 



