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series I have only given the extremes, the average of the whole 

 series, and a few intermediate measurements to show the variations 

 in shape. When the number of specimens is small, the measurements 

 of all are given. The measurements represent the longest longitu- 

 dinal and transverse diameters and are expressed in English inches 

 and decimals of the same, as are also all the measurements of the 

 l)irds themselves. The cubic contents is expressed in cubic centi- 

 meters and was obtained by filling the ^gg with water and then 

 carefully measuring the amount that it held.* 



I have not attempted to give the full synonomy of each species, 

 but only the original authority for the names I have adopted and 

 such names as have been used by the recent writers on the birds of 

 these inlands in the works already referred to. The English names in 

 quotation marks are those used by the sealers and whalers. 



Order, ANSERES. 



Family, Anatid^. 



1. duerquedula eatoni Sharpe. Eaton's Teal. " Desolation Duck." 



Querquedula eatoni SharTpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 828; id., Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, 1879, 

 Yol. 168, p. 105; Kidder and Coues, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus , No. 2, p. 4, 1875; 

 iid., op. cit., No. 3, p. 7, 1876; Saunders, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 168, p. 

 163; Sclater, Yoyage of Challenger, Zool., vol. ii, 2d Mem., p. 113. 



Four eggs from Kerguelen. 



Mr. Comer has no special notes that apply to this species, but 

 its habits have been well described in the works referred to above. 

 Apparently it is very common at this island, as Mr. Moseley on p. 190 

 of his " Notes " speaks of it as " enormously abundant," and in his 

 journal Mr. Comer often speaks of shooting ducks here, sometimes 

 twenty or more in a day. 



The four eggs in the collection measure, 2-00Xl'42, 2*06X1*45, 

 2*11 X 1*49 and 1*96 X 1*38. In shape they are elliptical ovate ; the sur- 

 face is very smooth like that of most ducks' eggs ; the color is light 

 olive green. 



* For very full and minute description of the eggs, see the excellent paper, previ- 

 ously referred to, on the Oology of Kerguelen, by Drs. Kidder and Coues (Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 3, pp. 7-20); and for careful and elaborate notes on the habits of the 

 birds, see the articles by Dr. Kidder (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 2, pp. 1-47); by Mr. 

 R. B. Sharpe, containing Rev. A. E. Eaton's notes (Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. vol. 168, 

 pp. 101-162) ; and those by Messrs. Sclater, Salvin, and Saunders, containing Mr. John 

 Murray's notes (Yoyage of the Challenger, Zoology, vol. ii, 2d Memoir, pp. 110 et seq.) 



