Corrections of Synonymy in the Family Sylviide. 273 
The same observations as to the moulting of the wing- 
feathers applies to this as to the preceding species. 
357. QUERQUEDULA HOTTENTOTTA, Smith. Hottentot Teal. 
Male and female, shot near Potchefstroom in the month of 
November. 
ANAS SPARSA, Smith. White-spotted Duck. 
Male, shot 7th March. Total length 223 inches, bill 24, 
wing 103, tarsus 2}, tail 5; weight 2 lb. 8 oz. Ivrides 
hazel ; bill, upper mandible ase horn-colour, with a large 
patch in the centre and also the tip black, under mandible 
pale pink ; tarsi and feet dull orange-yellow, with the webs 
and back parts dusky. 
Female, shot 19th April. Total length 214 inches; weight 
21b.60z. Ivrides dusky brown; bill, upper mandible slaty 
blue, with tip and central patch black, under mandible pinkish; 
tarsi and feet asin the male. The whole canal to the stomach 
crammed with grass-seeds. 
PHALACROCORAX AFRIcANUS (Gm.). Long-tailed African 
Cormorant. 
Male, shot 26th July. Partially § in nuptial dress. Irides 
bright light crimson; bill chrome-yellow, but light dusky 
brown on the ridge, ‘i and part of the lower mandible, the 
latter being also more or less barred; tarsi and feet black. 
Remains of fish in the stomach. 
_ These Cormorants are tolerably numerous about Potchef- 
stroom, but appear to keep to themselves, for they fish and 
move from place to place in a solitary manner, passing along 
the river, generally high overhead, early in the morning to 
their favourite pools, and returning pretty regularly in the 
evening to where they sleep; they swim very low in the 
water. 
XXV.—Various Corrections of Synonymy in the Family 
Sylvide. By Henry Srrsonm. 
In preparing the synonymy of the fifth volume of the ‘ Cata- 
logue of Birds in the British Museum,’ I have been obliged to 
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