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CYANOPTERUS FRETENSIS. 



Cyan. Mas. — Gula colloqne anteriore pallide vadiis ; Jorso, abdomineque, imis caudaque, albis, nigro 

 fasciatis ; ptilis creruleis. 



Cyan. Fem. — Gula colloque ut in mare; clorso inio ptilisque atro-cseruleis ; abdomine t'emigineo, 

 sparso et fasciato atro. 



FASCIATED TEAL. 



IN. IN. 



Length 14 Inner toe 1 l-6th 



Bill 1| Middle toe If 



7am 1 Outer toe 1 5-12ths 



Male Teal, with the back, breast, forepart of the neck, and cheeks light yellowish brown, 

 the two former having in the centre of each feather a dark brown patch ; flanks, abdomen, tail, and 

 rump white, the former broadly and the latter narrowly barred transversely with black ; vertex as 

 far down as the eyes, and a streak clown the back of the neck, deep brown ; feet, legs, and bill 

 blueish brown, the latter with a yellow patch on each side of the bill, extending beyond the nostrils; 

 wing coverts slaty blue, the greater ones tipped w ith white ; secondaries aeneous green, also tipped 

 with white ; epulis and tertiaries (which are long) dusky, the latter with the centre of each feather 

 darker. 



Female and young similar to the male, but with the abdomen and flanks ferruginous, irregu- 

 larly barred and irrorated with dark brown ; rump black ; the bill without the yellow markings on 

 the sides. 



Anas fretensis, King Zool. Proc. Dec. 14, 1830. 



Inhabits the Straits of Magellan and other localities on the western coast of South America. 



CYANOPTERUS DISCORS. 



( ',/,,„. — Capite cinereo branneo, lunula alba ante oculos. 



BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 

 Teal, with the head ashy brown ; a large white lunule before the eye. 



IK. IN. W. 



Length 10 Bill IJ Tarsi Lg 



Head ashy brown, slightly glossed at the tip of each feather with brassy; crown darkest; 

 between th'' eye and hill, and partially surrounding the former, a large lunate Bpol of white, the 



