102 VISCOUNT "WALDEN ON THE BIEDS OP CELEBES. 



ANSERES. 



ANATIDiE. 



Querquedula, Stephens. 



180. Quekquedula circia (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 204. 

 Anas querquedula, L., Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 49. 



Hab. Limbotto, 8th January, male in imperfect plumage — 6th and 13th Jannary, 

 females ( Von Rosenberg) ; Europe, Northern Africa, Asia to Island of Formosa. 



Q. humeralis, Miiller (Verhandl. p. 159), described from examples obtained on the 

 north shores of Java, is not admitted to be distinct by Professor Schlegel. 



Mareca, Stephens. 



181. Mareca gibberifrons, S. Miiller, Verhandel. p. 159, "Celebes;" Schlegel, Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 58. 

 Anas gracilis, Buller, Ibis, 1869, p. 41, "New Zealand." 



Hab. Goiontalo, young bird and an adult male ; Menado, adult male ; Tondano, 

 male; Pegoiat, female, in November (Forsten); Ayer-pannas, 18th August, male, 

 13th August, female; Panybie, 13th September, female (Von Rosenberg); Macassar, 

 female (Mutter); Timor (Miiller) ; near Port Essington (Mus. Lugd) ; Australia (Ver- 

 reaux); near Melbourne, S. Australia (Ferd. Miiller); New Caledonia ( Verreaux) ; 

 Flores (Wallace); New Zealand (Butter). 



Professor Schlegel (I. c.) remarks that Celebean examples are smaller than those 

 from other localities. It is probably this species that Mr. Gould alludes to (B. Austr. 

 8vo, ii. p. 366) as one of the races of M. punctata (Cuvier) found in Australia. 



Dendrocygna, Swainson. 



182. Dendrocygna guttata (Forsten), Mus. Lugd. ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, 



p. 85, " Celebes." 



Dendrocygna guttulata, Temm. ; "Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 36. 

 , Miiller; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 300. 



Hab. Limbotto, 1st September, adult male; Panybie, 12th September, adult female; 

 Kema, 24th August, adult male and female (Von Bosenberg); Ternate, Gilolo (Bern- 

 stein); island of Kelang, Amboyna (Hoedt); Bouru, Ceram ( Wallace) ; Goram, Aru, 

 Little Key ( Von Bosenberg). 



183. Dendroctgna vagans, Eyton, MS. ; Fraser, Zool. Typica, pi. 68, " Manilla " (1849) ; 



Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 88; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 300. 



Hab. Tondano, December, adult female (Forsten); Limbotto, 9th January, adult 



