200 MATHEWS— Birds of North and North-West Australia. 



Average measurement of 14 eggs, 2.92 cm. x 2.06 cm.; 

 largest egg, 2.90 cm. x 2.20 cm.; smallest egg, 2.80 cm. x 

 2.15 cm. , 



Birds of the 

 North and North^West of Australia. 



By Gregory M. Mathews, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., M.B.O.TJ. 



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88. Cheniscus Pulchellus. Green Goose Teal. 



Nettapus pulchellus Gould, Proc Zool. Soc (Lond.) 1841, 

 p. 89, Port Essington. 



No. 242— $ . Length, 12 inches (13/7/86). 



No. 244— $ . Length, 13.2 inches (13/7/86). 



No. 273— $ . Length, 13.4 inches (11/7/86). 



Irides, fine brown; eyelid, black. Bill, upper mandible, 

 black, becoming very dark brown towards the point; nail, 

 flesh-coloured, tinged with brown, chiefly on top ; edge of upper 

 mandible for two-thirds its length from the base and a small 

 spot about half way down the bill and near the edge, fleshy- 

 white; lower mandible, flesh-colour, with two spots at the back 

 of the nail ; base of mandible and some irregular spots between 

 the lores of the bill, brown; legs, feet and webs very dark 

 brown with a stripe on the outside of the tarsus, a spot on the 

 inside of the tibia, a line on each side of the middle toe and on 

 the outside of the inner toe, light olive. 



They are very lively swimmers in their quick movements 

 over the water, and somewhat resemble the Grebes in this re- 

 spect. Wounded birds do not dive to escape being taken. 

 They do not leave the water, but feed along the edge. 



No. 256— $ . Length, 13.1 inches (2/8/86). 



No. 279— 5 . Length, 13.2 inches (18/7/86). 



No. 312— $ . Length, 12.7 inches (26/7/86). 



88. Chenonetta Jubata. Wood Duck. 



Anas Jubata Latham. Index, Ornith. Suppl., p. LXIX 

 1801 ? New South Wales, 



