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Dafila acuta, Baedeker. Eier Eur. Vdg. tab. 61. n>. 1 (1855-63) ; Ross, 

 Canad. Nat. vii. p. 152 (1862) ; id. Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, p. 287 ; 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 531 (1873) ; Hume $ Marsh. Game Birds 

 Ind. iii. p. 189 (1880) ; Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 69 

 (1887); MacFarlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 420 (1891); 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 270 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 

 i. p. 219 (1899). 



The eggs of the Pin-tail Duck vary from a broad to a narrow 

 oval form and are sometimes elliptical. Some specimens are very 

 glossy, others are entirely without gloss. They range from greenish 

 buff to greyish green, and measure from 2 to 2-25 in length, and 

 from 1-45 to 1-6 in breadth. 



2. Fort Simpson. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 



1. North America, Lat. 58| N., Dr. J. Rae [P.]. 



22nd June. 

 4. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



July (R. MacFarlane : Smiths. 



Inst.). 



4. Yukon Delta, Alaska, 6th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Henshaw Coll.). 



5. St. Michael's, Alaska, June (Hen- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



shaw Coll.}. 

 7. My Vatn Lake, Iceland (Nielson). Crowley Bequest. 



7. Cromlit, near Knockie, Inverness- Seebohm Coll. 



shire, 17th May (E. Haroitt). f 



5. Copenhagen, 20th May. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Lapland (J. Wolley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Munioniska, Lapland, 8th June Seebohm Coll. 



(Meves). 



8. Sweden, 18th June. Crowley Bequest. 



8. Petchora R., Lat. 66 N., 5th June Seebohm Coll. 



(H. Seebohm $ J. A. Harvie- 



Brown). 



6. Yenesei Valley, 1st July (H. Seebohm ColL 



Seebohm). 

 6. Kalarash, Roumania, 27th May. Seebohm Coll. 



Dafila spinicauda ( V.). 



Dafila spinicauda, Scl. fy Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 134 (1889) ; Holland, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 207 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 279 (1895) ; 

 Lane, Ibis, 1897, p. 194; Sharpe, Hand-l i. p. 219 (1899); Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 245 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paidista, 

 iv. p. 280 (1900). 



The eggs of the Brown Pin-tail Duck are of a broad oval shape 

 and almost without gloss. They are of a pale brownish cream- 

 colour. Five examples measure respectively : 2*09 by 1-55 ; 2*1 

 by 1-53 ; 2'08 by 1-6 ; 2-01 by 1-47 ; 2-15 by 1-55. 



3. Argentine Republic, Oct. A. H. Holland, Esq. [0.]. 



1. Sacaya, Prov. of Tarapaca, Chile, Crowley Bequest. 



llth March. 

 1. Chile (Tristram ColL). Crowley Bequest. 



