342 BIRDS OF DAMABA LAND. 



but his MS. notes contain a detailed description of its plumage, 

 ■which leaves no doubt of the correctness of the identification. 

 — Ed.J 



394. Anas xanthorhyncha, Forst. Yellow-billed Duck. 



Anasjlavirostria, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 96. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 655. 



„ „ Ohapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 422. 



Anas xanthorhyncha, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 10639. 



This fine Duck is somewhat common on Lake Ngami 

 and the Botletle River, but I do not remember to have 

 met with it in Damara or Great Namaqua Land, though 

 to the south of the Orange River it is a widely diffused 

 and common species. 



The iris is brown ; the bill ga^mboge-yellow, with an 

 oblong brown patch on the ridge of the upper mandible, 

 the nail being similar. 



[Mr. Andersson's MS. notes contain a description in detaU 

 of this species, from which it is clear that his identification of 

 it is correct, though his last collection did not contain a spe- 

 cimen. — Ed.] 



395. Aythia capensis (Cuv.). South-African Pochard. 



Nyroca brunnea, Eyton's Anatidse, pi. 23. 



„ „ Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Om. 



1852, p. 160. 



„ „ Layard's Oat. No. 659. 



Fuligula nyroca, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 423. 

 Aythia capensis, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 10692. 



This species is only a visitor to Uamara Land, and, I 

 suspect, a rare one ; for I only remember meeting with it 

 there on one occasion, when I obtained several individuals 



