MADAGASCAR BERNICLE. 55 



Obscure green Bernicle with the face beyond the cye>, the throat. 



and abdomen white; the lower part of the jugulum, breast, and 



sides rusty, waved with brown; beneath the ears a green ovate 



spot. 

 Anas Madagascariensis. Gmel. Syst. Xat. 1. 522. Lath. Iiid- 



Orn. 2. 875. 

 Sarcelle male de Madagascar. Biiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. P. 274. 



Buff. PL Enl. 770. 

 Madagascar Teal. Lath. Gen. Syn. C. 556. 



LENTGTH about one foot : beak an inch long, and 

 yellow, with a black tip : the irides are yellow : the 

 top and fore parts of the head and neck white, passing 

 on the sides behind the eyes and ending in a point 

 at the region of the ears : the rest of the head and 

 neck is dark dusky greenish-black, with an oval patch 

 of paler green below the ears : the lower part of the 

 neck and breast pale rust-colour, undulated with 

 dusky lines, and passing backwards in a collar : the 

 upper part of the body, wings, and tail, dark green : 

 the sides clouded with rust-colour : the middle of' 

 the belly and vent white : the quills dusky : the 

 wings with a white streak : the legs dusky. Inhabits 

 Madagascar. 



