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coloured plate by Mr. Camillo Dal Fiiime (1), it was killed 

 in tlic marshes of Rovigo and is kept in the Collectlon of 

 « Accademia dei Concordi » at Rovigo. This spociraen is not 

 quitoadult, from the short doscription givon by Dal Fiume 

 and from llio plalo, I think it rescmbles our spccimen very 

 mnch, only itdiffers in colour on the forehead, crown, nape 

 and round the eye which is of a rieh red-bay as the des- 

 cription says, white from the plate it would appear 

 brownish ; the head has not the two spots, bnt instcad a 

 large space of an isabelline tint, which principally occupies 

 the sides of head, under eye, partly the sides of neck and 

 lores ; the wing-speculum is also dilferenl being a shady 

 dark-green edged anteriorly with cinnamon, posteriorly 

 with black. However jiidging from plate they are very 

 much alike ; I saw some years ago the specimen at Rovigo 

 and there is no doubt on its identity. 



Other hybrids of Wigeon and Pintail were described by 

 my friend A. Suchetet (2) of Ronen, they are however very 

 rare and only hve would really be authentic, among these 

 he mentions the two specimens caught in Italy, that 

 described by Mr. Dal Fiume and the one of which I am now 

 speaking, which belongs to the Correr Museum, the latter 

 after a communication he had from nie; Mr. Suchetet (3) 

 is astonished that these specimens present green tints 

 above the eye in the direction of the nape and thinks to 

 find some connextion with the American Wigeon [Mareca 

 americana)^ he adds however, that some authors state that 

 there areWigeons with such tints but which he has never 

 Seen. This is very singular, for these Wigeons are very 

 common, nay, 1 believe that when they are quite adult 

 they arealways seen with this character and thal it is more 

 orless developed according to their age. The following aro 

 the principal types y have had occasion to observe : 



a. Specimen cf very okl killed by me in the lake of the 



(1) Alli Soc. Ual. Sc. nat., XXXIV, 3° pag. 281-84 con tav. col. (1895). 



(2) Les Oiseauxhybr.renc. ä l'etat sauvage {Me'm.Soc. zool. de France, 1890, 

 and follow.). 



(3) Loc. cit., p. C37 of the Ext. 



