874 Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 



of the Philiiipines, but that species has the superciliary stripe and face rufous, 

 a narrow white band on the wing, the general plumage without the conspicuous 

 pale edges to the feathers. Anas obscura of N. America is a good deal similar 

 in general plumage, but is much larger, has the speculum blue, without the 

 buff superciliary and blackish transocular stripe. Somewhat more remote in 

 degree of resemblance is the female of the common Anas hoscas (or male after 

 the nuptial moult), but, while the male of Anas hoscas nearly all the year wears 

 a very handsome and distinct dress, the two sexes of the Australasian Wild 

 Duck are similar at all seasons. 



GENUS NETTION Kaup. 



Teal are of small size; culmen 1 to IV2 times as long as the tarsus, the 

 nail small ; hallux less than half the length of the tarsus ; wing-speculum rather 

 broad; secondaries V3 the length of the wing. Of cosmopolitan distribution. 

 Sexes of some species dissimilar in coloration, of others not so. 



4 372. NETTION GIBBERIFRONS (S. MiilL). 



Wood Teal. 



a. Anas (Mareca) gibberifrons (1) S. Miill., Verh. Natuurk. Comm. 1839—44, 159. 



b. Mareca gibberifrons (1) Gray, Gen. B. m, 614, Nr. 5 (1845); (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 



1872, Vm, 102; (3) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 144. 



c. Anas gibbifrons (1) Wall, P. Z. S. 1863, 487. 



d. Anas punctata (1) Gld., HI). B. Austr. 1865, 11, 365, part; (II) Newt., P. Z. S. 1871, 



649, pt., fig. 2, fig. 4; (3) Echw., J. f. 0. 1877, 218; (4) W. Bias., ib. 1883, 121; 

 (5) Rchw., t. c. 122. 



e. Anas gibberifrons (1) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 58; fSj Bosenb., Malay. Archip. 



1878, 279; (3) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1880, 452, 519, 535; (4) Rosenb., Zool. Garten 



1881, 167; (V) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1882, 452, pi. XXXHI; (6) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 



1882, nr, 398; (7) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1882, XLI, 219; (8) W. Bias., 

 Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1885, 325; 1886, 171; (9) Ramsay, Tab. List 1888, 22, 31; 

 (10) Buller, B. N. Zeal. 2"* ed. 1888, 11, 261; (11) North, Nests & Eggs B. Austr. 

 1889, 342; (12) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1892, 70; (13) Buttik., Zool. Erg. Weber's 

 Reise 1893, m, 285, 306; (14) P.& F. Sarasin, Z. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 1895, XXX, 

 333; (15) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1896, Nr. 1, p. 15. 



f. Anas gracilis (1) Buller, Ibis 1869, 41. 



Nettion gibberifrons (1) Gray, HL. 1871, m, 83, Nr. 10663; (II) Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, 

 XXVn, 254, pi. n, fig. 2; (3) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 165, 181; (4) Salvad., 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1896, XXXYI, 119; (5) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 590. 



g. Anas castanea (1) Rams, (nee Eyt.), Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1879, IH, 115, 301; ib. IV, 102. 

 h. Mareca castanea (1) Meyer (nee Eyt.), Verb. z.-b. Ges. "Wien 1881, 767. 



For further synonymy and references of. Salvadori e G, II. 



Figures and descriptions. Sclater e F; Salvadori e 6, II; Newton (12 (sternum and 



trachea); Scblegel el; Vorderman e 7; Buller e 10. 

 Adult. Above sepia-brown, with pale brown edges to the feathers; lesser wing-coverts, 



