184 AKATIDJE. 



9. Sweden, 14th June. Crowley Bequest. 



5. Livonia. Baltic Prov., 21st June Seebohm Coll. 

 (Russoio). 



Fuligula no vae-zealandiae (Gm.). 



Fuligula novse-zealandire, Potts, Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii. p. 73 (1839) ; 

 Travers, t. c. iv. p. 208 (1871) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal. 2nd ed. 

 ii. p. 274 (1888) ; Salvation, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 368 (1895) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 224 (1899). 



The eggs of the New Zealand Scaup Duck are long narrow 

 ellipses, smooth, glossy, and of a greyish cream-colour. Three 

 specimens measure respectively: 2'5 by 1/67; 2-6 by 1*58; 2-5 

 by 1-62. 



1. New Zealand, 18th Oct. (Holds- Crowley Bequest. 



worth). 



2. Rangitata River, New Zealand, Crowley Bequest. 



3rd Jan. (Field Coll.). 



Genus TACHYERES, Owen. 



Tachyeres cinereus (Gin.). 



Micropterus cinereus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 96; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, 



p. 161. 



Micropterus patachonicus, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 162. 

 Tachyeres cinereus, Scl. 8f Salv. Zool. ' Challenger' Exped. ii. pt. viii. p. 107 



(1880) ; Scl. t. c. p. 150 (1880) ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 



p. 373 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 224 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 246 (1899). 



The eggs of the Loggerhead-Duck are of a regular broad oval 

 shape, smooth, fairly glossy, and of a brownish cream-colour. They 

 measure from 3-12 to 3*42 in length, and from 2-1 to 2*3 in breadth. 



4. Falkland Islands (C. C. Abbott). Gould Coll. 



7. Falkland Islands ( C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



5. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Falkland Islands. McCormick Bequest. 



2. Falkland Islands. Voy. H.M.S. < Challenger.' 



3. Falkland Islands. Purchased. 



1. Alert Bay, Straits of Magellan, Oct. Dr. Coppinger [P.]. 



]. Elizabeth Island. Voy. H M.S. < Challenger.' 



Genus CLANGULA, Leach. 

 Clangula clangnla (Linn.). 



Anas clangula, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixxviii. tig. 5, a, b (1845- 



54) ; Wheelwright, Spring fy Summer in Lapland, p. 364 (1871). 

 Clangula glaucion, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 56. tig. 3 (1855-63) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 595 (1875); Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxvii. p. 376 (1895 K 

 Fuligula vulgaris, Heivitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 435, pi. cxix. fig. i 



(1856). 



