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B. — Differs from A in having the sides of head, neck, 

 and throat pale-buff, deeper fulvous on the breast; the 

 feathers of the lower breast and abdomen tipped with white, 

 giving those parts a silvery wash ; wing speculum coppery- 

 green; basal half of lower mandible brown, the remainder 

 yellow, with a few small brown spots. Wing, 9*5; tail, 4; 

 culmen, 1'85 ; tarsus, 1'6 ; sex, ( ?). Locality: Lake Albert, 

 South Australia. 



C. — Differs from A in having the sides of head, throat, 

 and the whole of the under-surface washed with ochreous- 

 yellow ; the feathers of the breast margined with bright 

 ochreous-brown ; lower mandible plumbeous with a small 

 yellow spot near apex. Wing, 9'35 ; tail, 4; culmen, 1'7; 

 tarsus, 15; sex, ( ' ?). Locality: Meningie, Lake Albert, 

 South Australia, July 30, 1908." 



D. — This specimen is much smaller than the three pre- 

 ceding ones, being about the size of Nettion gibberifrons, and 

 also agreeing with that species in general colouration and 

 markings with the following exceptions : — Facial markings 

 similar to those of A ; a white spot on each side of the head 

 at the base of the upper mandible ; greater wing-coverts not 

 white, but olive with faint black subterminal band and 

 broadly tipped with reddish-buff ; greater under wing-coverts 

 greyish-brown broadly edged with white on their inner webs, 

 the lesser ones white with a brown spot at the base. Wing, 

 8; tail, 3'5 ; culmen, 1'65 ; tarsus, 1'45 ; sex, female. 

 Locality: Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, May 16, 

 1895. 



E. — Crown of head, facial markings, and throat similar 

 to those of Anas super ciliosa, the sides of the neck are more 

 distinctly freckled, and the feathers of the under parts brown 

 with broad reddish edges, as in the female of Spatula rhyn- 

 chotis; upper parts brown with greenish reflections, each 

 feather edged with buffy-grey ; the scapularies brown, lighter 

 along the shaft-line and richly glossed with green : upper 

 wing-coverts dull-blue, those near the margin of the wing 

 narrowly edged with white ; the greater row brown with 

 greenish reflections, having a subterminal black band glossed 

 with metallic-green and broadly tipped with white ; wing 

 speculum on the secondaries metallic-green, each feather hav- 

 ing a subterminal black band narrowly edged with white at 

 the tip ; the two outer tertials of each wing are brown with a 

 broad velvety-black margin on their outer webs glossed with 

 green : under wing-coverts white, some of the greater ones 

 tipped with grey ; axillaries white ; primaries and tail- 

 feathers brown, glossed with olive, the latter and also the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts narrowly margined with reddish- 

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