3S8 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [Apr. 4, 



7. QUEROUEDULA VERSICOLOR. 



Pato pico de tres colores, Az. Apunt. no. 440 (Paraguay) unde 

 Anas versicolor, Vieill. N. D. v. p. 109 (1816), et Enc. Me'th. 

 p. 353 (1823) ; Schl. Mus. des P. B. Anseres, p. 5/. 



Querquedula versicolor, Cassin in Gilliss's Exp. ii. p. 203 (1856) 

 (Chili) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 389 (Falklands) ; 1867, p. 335 

 (Chili); Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 161 (Falklands); Scl. & Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1868, p. 146 (Buenos Ay res) ; Ibis, 1870, p. 499 (Sandy 

 Point), et Nomencl. p. 129; Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 499. 



Anas maculirostris, Licht. Doubl. p. 84 (1823), ex Azara ; Burm. 

 J. fur Orn. 1860, p. 266, et La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 516 (Mendoza) ; 

 Sund. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 126 (Galapagos). 



Querquedula maculirostris, Gay, Faun. Chil. p. 452 , Phil. & 

 Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 42. 



Pterocyanea maculirostris, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 28. 

 Anas fretensis, King, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 15 ; Jard. & Selb. 111. 

 Orn. iv. t. 29. 



Cyanopterus fretensis, Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 131 (1838). 



Anas muralis, Merr. Ersch. & Grub. Enc. sect. i. vol. xxxv. p. 42. 



Supra nigra albo transfasciolata, fasciis in uropygio frequentiori- 



bus et angustioribus ; pileo fumoso-nigro unicolori, capitis late- 



ribus cum gutture lacteo-albis ; abdomine albido, in pectore 



ochracescente induto et nigro guttato, in vertice magis albicante 



et nigro frequenter transfasciato ; alls extus grisescenti-fuscis ; 



speculo purpurascenti-viridi, supra et subtus albo marginato et 



subtus fascia altera subterminali nigra ornato ; hypochondriis 



fasciis latis albis et nigris distincte notatis; rostro nigro, macula 



ad mandibulce basin utrinque aurantiaca,pedibus cory/inis : long. 



tota 165, alee 7'6, caudce 3'4, tarsi 1*3, rostri a rictu 1*9. 



Fem. mari similis sed coloribus paulo dilutioribus et speculo 



atari obscuriore [Descr. exempl. ex Chilia (Leybold)~\. 



Hub. Paraguay (Azara) ; Buenos Ayres (Hudson) ; Mendoza 



(Burm.) ; Magellan Straits (King) ; Falklands (Abbott) ; Chili 



(Phil, et Landb.); Galapagos (Sund.). 



This Duck, first described by Azara from Paraguay, is found all 

 over Antarctic America. Mr. Hudson obtained it at Conchitas near 

 Buenos Ayres ; and according to Burmeister it occurs at Mendoza 

 (at the foot of the Cordillera) near marshes and brooks. 



In Chili Philippi and Landbeck found this species somewhat rarer 

 than Q. cyanoptera. In East Falkland it is not common ; but when it 

 does occur it is usually seen in numbers. It breeds in the Falklands ; 

 for Capt. Abbott had young birds brought to him, though he never 

 found a nest. 



The supposed extension of the range of this Duck to the Gala- 

 pagos is rather surprising. It rests upon the authority of Sundevall, 

 who determined the specimen. 



8. QUEEQXJEDULA PUNA. 



Anas /wriflr, Tsch. Faun. Per. p. 309 (Peru); Burm. Syst. Ueb. 

 ii. p. 139. 



