ANSERINE — THE GEESE — DENDROCYCNA. 
481 
C. Crissum black. 
4. D. viduata . 1 Breast and lower neck (all round), rich chestnut ; sides pale fulvous or 
yellowish white, barred with blackish ; abdomen black ; forepart of head white ; rest of head and 
upper part of neck black, with a white patch on the foreneck. Hab. Southern South America. 
Dendrocycna autumnalis. 
THE BLACK-BELLIED TREE DUCK. 
Anas autumnalis, Linn. S. R. I. 1766, 205 (based on the Bed-billed Whistling Duck, Edwaeds, pi. 
194 ; West Indies). 
Dendrocygna autumnalis, Eyton, Monog. Anat. 1838, 109. — Baied, B. N. Am. 1858, 770 ; Cat. R. 
Am. B. 1859, no. 574. — Coues, Key, 1872, 284 ; Check List, 1873, no. 487 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 
706 ; Birds R. W. 1874, 558. — Sol. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, 374 (monographic). 
Dendrocycna autumnalis, Ridgw. Rom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 599. 
Hab. Middle America and southwestern border of United States ; West Indies. Replaced 
in South America by the D. autumnalis discolor. 
Sp. Char. Adult: Pileum, neck, back, scapulars, jugulum, and breast cinnamon-brown ; the 
forehead paler, the occiput passing posteriorly into black (which is continued in a narrow stripe 
D. autumnalis. 
down the nape), and the dorsal region more ferruginous. Head and upper part of the neck, except 
as described, pale ocbraceous-ashy. Abdomen, flanks, rump, and lining of the wing deep black, 
abruptly defined against the cinnamon of the breast ; crissum white, spotted with black. Lesser 
wing-coverts light cinereous, overlaid by an ochraceous-olive wash ; middle coverts purer ash ; 
greater and primary coverts pure white, the lower feathers of the latter dusky ; secondaries, pri- 
1 Dendrocycna viduata. ^ 
Anas viduata, Linn. S. R. I. 1766, 205. 
Dendrocygna viduata, Eyton, Monog. Anat. 1838, 110. — Scl. & Salv. Rom. Reotr. 1873, 129 ; 
P. Z. S. 1876, 376 (monographic). — Coues, B. R. W. 1874, 559 (synonymy). 
Canard du maragnon, Buff. PI. Enl. 808. 
Pato caro bianco, Azaea, Apunt. III. 1805, no. 435. 
Hab. South America in general ; Cuba. 
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