HAWAIIAN BIRDS. Ill 



Description.— Adult. Top of head blackish ; neck, upper back and inter- 

 scapulars brown with rufous brown bands; lower back, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts brownish black; speculum deep purple, bordered with white; 

 sides of head, neck and- throat brown mottled ; breast rufous brown with 

 U-shaped blackish rnarkings; abdomen brownish buff; sides of body 

 rufous heavily marked with deep brown. Length about 20 inches. 



Anas la.ysanensis, Rothschild. Laysan Teal. 



This duck, which is even smaller than the preceding species, 

 appears to be limited to the island of Laysan, where it is fairly 

 numerous in the scrub. Though often seen on the beach, Palmer 

 never observed this duck in the water, and it appears to have be- 

 come as thoroughly habituated to a strictly land life as the nene, 

 or Hawaiian goose. 



This duck is a near relative of the preceding species, and evi- 

 dently both are derived from the same stock. 



Description. — Adult. Above deej) blackish brown, darkest on rump and 

 upper tail-coverts, with irregular U-shaped markings of light rusty-brown ; 

 crown black; an irregular ring of white about eye; speculum deep green, 

 tipped with white ; below pale rusty brown, irregularly barred and spotted. 

 Length about 15 to 17 inches. Female smaller. 



Merganser serrator (Linn.). Red-breasted Merganser. 



This duck was" recorded by me in the "Auk" for April, 1893, as 

 a "casual and possibly a rather regular winter visitor" to the 

 islands on the strength of two specimens shot near Hilo. No 

 others have been seen since and, were it not for the fact that the 

 bird seemed to be familiar to the natives to whom I showed the 

 specimen I shot, I should be inclined to look upon its occurrence 

 here as purely accidental. Mr, Bryan in his Key notes its occur- 

 rence on Oahu. 



Description. — Adult. Head greenish black and crested; above pied 

 black and white; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail ash gray; neck and 

 sides of chest light cinnamon, streaked with black; lower parts white or 

 salmon colored. Length 20 to 25 inches. 



Charitonetta albeoli (Stejneger). Buffle-head. 



Mr. Bryan records a single specimen as being in the cabinet of 



