870 Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 



of the globe, and of these the present species is most nearly allied to D. fulva 

 (Gm.) of the Indian countries, Africa and America, which has no black spots 

 on the neck and breast and the upper tail-coverts buff-white, and to D. javanica 

 (Horsf), which ranges from India to Java, and like D. fulva has the neck and 

 breast unspotted, but the upper tail-coverts chestnut. 



The hallux of Dendrocycna is scarcely at all lobated, but furnished with a 

 considerable hooked claw, which doubtless stands in connection with its arboreal 

 habits. Salvador! points out that the lower part of the tarsus in front, being 

 covered with small reticulate scales, and not with transverse scutellae, serves to 

 distinguish Dendrocycna from all the Anatinae. The name has commonly been 

 spelt Dendrocygna., but Sclater (f 1) has shown that Dendroci/cna is correct. 



f370. DENDROCYCNA GUTTATA Schl. 



White-spotted Tree Duck. 



a. Dendrocygna guttulata "Temm."; (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 36 (descr. null.); »S. Miill. 



MS." (2) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1864, 300; (3) Briigg., Abli. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 464; 

 (IV) Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, XXVH, 164, pi. I; (5) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresden 

 1896, Nr. 2, p. 20. 



b. Dendrocygna guttata [Tors ten MS.]; (1) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 85; (2)W&\d., 



Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 102; (3) Rosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 279; (4) W. Bias., 

 J. f. 0. 1883, 140; (5) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1SS3, 52, 200; (6) W. Bias., Z. ges. Om. 

 1886, 202; (7) id., J. f. 0. 1890, 146; (8) M. & Wg., J. f. O. 1894, 253. 



c. Dendrocycna guttulata (1) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1880, 509. 

 tl. Anas guttata (1) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 1881, 167. 



Dendrocycna guttata (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1882, XVIH, 401; (2) id., Orn. Pap. 

 1882, m, 388; (3) id., ib. Agg. 1891, 210; (4) id., Cat. B. 1895, XXVn, 164. 



"Taminga", Kabruang, Talaut, Nat. Coll. 



"Manu Lantang", Tonkean, East Celebes, iid. 



'•Bebetalaga'', Main, Minabassa, Malay, iid. . 



For further synonymy and references see Salvadori 1, 4. 



Figure and descriptions. Salvadori a IV, 1, 4; Scblegel b 1. 



Adult. Head above brown of a burnt umber tint, a stripe down hind neck darker 

 brown; upper parts dark brown, the feathers broadly edged with pale brown; 

 remiges dark brown; lower back and rump blackish with pale tips; upper tail- 

 coverts black, the basal ones conspicuously barred or spotted with white; tail 

 blackish, paler at tip; eyebrow, face and sides of upper neck') greyish brown, 

 mottled with whitish; uj^per throat whiter, tinged with rufous; loral stripe passing 

 through the eye dark brown; lower neck and under parts yellowish rufous, 

 becoming almost white on the abdomen, the bases of the feathers of the neck and 

 breast white, marked with brown so as to enclose white spots, the spots larger and 

 very conspicuous on the sides of body and on flanks, imder tail-coverts barred black 

 and white; wing below dark brown, some of the wing-coverts and ends of the axil- 

 laries barred with white (Kabruang, Nov. 1893: Nat. Coll. — C 13019). 



') Keuleman's plate in Salvadori's Catalogue shows the grey of the upper neck sharply defined 

 from the rufous of the lower neck, but the transition is more gradual. 



