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ERISMATURA AUSTRALIA 



Eris. Mas. — Capite colloque atris : corporc castaneo. 



Eris. Fern. — Ferruginea, t'asciata et punctata atro et brunneo. 



AUSTRALIAN DUCK. 



Male cluck, with the head and neck hlack ; the hody chesnut. 



Fern, ferruginous duck, fasciated and punctated with hlack and brown. 



IN. IN. 1". 



Length 15 Bill ]g Tarsi 1J 



Male: with the head, throat, and neck hlack; below with the back dark chesnut; tail, wings, 

 and rump black, the latter irrorated with ferruginous ; under tail coverts silvery grey ; bill, feet, 

 and legs lead coloured. 



Fern. : brown ferruginous, fasciated transversely with black and dark brown ; throat light 

 hrown ; under surface silvery grey, slightly tinged with brown ; tail and wings hrown. 



Oxyura Australis, Gould Zool. Proc. 1 SSii, t >. x.">. 



Inhabits Australia. First sent to England by Lieut. Breton from Swan River. The specimens 

 are in the collection of the Zoological Society. 



ERISMATURA DOMIMCA. 



Eris. Mas. — Femigineus, capite anteriore atro ; speculo albo. 



Eris, Fern. — Brunnea, lineis albis infra et per oculos, occipite tendentibus : speculo mare simili. 



DOMINICAN DUCK. 



Male, ferruginous duck, with the head anteriorly black ; the wing spot white. 

 Fern, brown duck, with a white streak through the eve and another below it, extending to the 

 occiput ; wing spot as in the male. 



IN. !>•■ 



Length 13| Oxter toe If 



Bill 1± Middle toe 2 



Tarsi 1 Inner toe 1 3 



Male: fore part of the head sooty black ; the hind part of the neck, hack, scapulars, flanks, 

 and rump ferruginous ; wing coverts brown ; quills ashy black, with the wing spot white ; tail 



