13G 



MALACORHYNCHUS MEMBRINACEUS. 



MttL Mas. — Cinereus, macula caryophylacca post oculari. 

 Mai. Fem. — Mare similis. sed macula post ocularis caret. 



MEMBRINACEOUS DUCK. 



Male, ashy, with the side of the bill towards the tip membrinaceous ; a pink spot behind the eye. 

 Fem. similar, hut without the pink spot behind the eye. 



IN. IV. 



Length 161 Bill 2f Tarsi 1 j 



Male: grey, transversely striped with brownish black; stripes broadest on the flanks; neck 

 brown ; a stripe round the eye and down the back of the neck dark brown ; a little behind the eye 

 a bright pink spot ; back brown, transversely irrorated with lighter ; rump black ; tail coverts 

 white; tail brown; under tail coverts fawn colour; quills dark brown; coverts light brown, 

 except the tip of the primary coverts, which are white, forming a white wing spot ; bill and legs 

 brown, the former largely lobated. 



Fem. : as above. 



Anas malacorhynchus Ghnel. Syst. 1. 526. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 862. 



Anas membrinacea Lath. Ind. Orn. App. 1 1 . 



Anasfasciala Shan- .V. Mis. 17 pi. 697 



Sofe-biUed Duck Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 522. 



New Holland Thick Lath Gen. Syn. Sup. 11. 



Rhynchaspis malacorhynchus Steph. Sh. Zoo/. 12. 123. 



membrinacea Steph Sh. Zool. 12. 124 



Inhabits New South Wales. 



