ANAS. 189 



. 156. DENDROCYGNA GUTTULATA Wallace. 

 SPOTTED TREE DUCK. 



Dendrocygna guttulata WALLACE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 36; SHARPE, 

 Hand-List (1899), 1, 215; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 

 (1906), 37. 



Dendrocycna guttata SALVADORI, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1895), 27, 164, 

 pi. 1. 



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. 



" 'Young. Feathers of the flanks paler and with the white spots elon- 

 gated and lanceolated/ (Schlegel.)" (Salvadori.) 



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 Linnaeus, 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 FEASEB, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1839), 113; SALVADOBI, Cat. 

 Birds Brit, Mus. (1895), 27, 205; SHABPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 

 216; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 37. 



Du-ma-ras', Manila; da-mu-l'og, Ticao. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor); 

 Luzon (Cutning, Jagor, Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor, Worcester) ; Marinduque 



