AN8ERlfc>RMES. 
Abes 4# 
Order ANSERIFORMES. 
Millais, J. G., on hybrid ducks. Bull. B. O. C. xv, p. 89 : Bonhote, t. c. 
pp. 88 & 89. 
Archceocygnus , n. gen. [fossil]. Type A. lacustris, n. sp. Pleistocene of 
Interior of South Australia ; De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, 
pp. 11-13, pi. iii, figg. 2 a, b, 3, 4, 6 a, 6, 7 a, b. 
S arcidiornis melanonota , figured ; Baker, J. Bombay Soc. xvi, pi. xxii. 
Chenopsis nanus , n. sp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia ; 
De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, pp. 13 & 14, pi. ii, figg. 3, 
5-7. 
Bernicla leucopsis , near Wark worth ; Pybus, Tr. Soc. Northumb. (2) i, 
p. 301. 
Branta bernicla leucogastra , note on the nest and eggs ; Thayer* Auk xxii, 
p. 408. 
Chen rossi breeding in confinement; Blaauw, Ibis 1905, pp. 13*/ & 138. 
Nettapus egrensis, n. sp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia * 
De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, p. 16, pi. iv, fig. 9. 
Casarca casarca in Dalmatia; Rossler, Ornith. Monber. xiii, p. 74. 
Tadorna radjah rufitergum, n. subsp., Arnhem Land, N. Australia;, 
Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii, p. 205. 
Anas ( Nettium ) strenua, n. sp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South 
Australia ; De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, p. 15, pi. iv, fig. 6 : 
A. gracilipes , n. sp. [fossil]. , Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia ; 
De Vis, t. c. pp. 14 & 15, pi. iv. 
Anas boscas , nesting in a tree ; Smith, Irish Natural, xiv, p. 200 : nesting 
in a tree (60 feet from the ground) ; Fisher, Wilts. Mag. xxxiv, 
p. 109 : A. boscas spilogaster , notes on ; Schioler, Vid. Medd. 1905, 
pp. 127-148, 239 & 240, pis. ii— iv : A. superciliosa pelewensis is the 
form inhabiting the Pelew Islands, Samoa, Fiji, and the Solomon 
Islands, in place of the true A. superciliosa from Australia and New 
Zealand ; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. J2ool. xii, p. 248 : A. boscas 
xA. pcecilorhyncka ; Bonhote, P. Zool. Soc. London 1905, Vol. i,\ 
pp. 147-149 : A. superciliosa x Dafila acuta ; id. t. c. pp. 147-149. 
Chaulelasmus streperus , near Springfield, Mass.; Morris, Auk xxii, p. 207., 
Mareca penelope at Sandusky, Ohio j Deane, t. c. p. 206. 
Spatula clypeata , a brood of albinos ; id. t. c. pp. 408 & 409 : figured ; 
Baker, J. Bombay Soc. xvi, pi. xxi : S. clypeata x Querquedula discors ; 
Deane, Auk xxii, p. 321. 
Netta rufina in Holland ; Oort, Notes Leyden Mus. xxvi, pp. 196-199. 
Fuligula cristata breeding on Lough Conn ; Warren, Irish Natural, xiv, 
p. 165. 
Aytliya vallisneria in Colorado ; Felger, Auk xxii, p. 421. 
Nyroca effodiata , n. sp. [fossil]. Pleistocene of Interior of South Australia ; 
De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus. No. 6, pp. 15 & 16, pi. iv. 
Nyroca nyroca from Tiansban ; Lonnberg, Arkiv Zool. ii, No. 9, p. 3 : 
N. africana, figured ; Baker, J. Bombay Soc. xvi, pi. xx. 
C Edemia nigra breeding in Ireland ; Trevelyan, Field, July 15, 1905 : 
Pycraft, Knowledge 1905, p. 207 : (E. deglandi and (E. perspicillata , 
in South-Eastern Michigan ; Swales & Taverner, Auk xxii, p. 88. 
Somateria mollissima and its allies ; Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. xv, pp. 43 
and 44 : blackish V-shaped markings on the throat ; Saunders, t. c. 
pp. 69 & 70 : in the Adriatic ; Angelin, Boll. Soc. Ital. (2) vi, 
pp. 101-103. 
S. v. -nigrum in the Orkney Islands ; Stubbs, Bull. B. O. C. xv, pp. 32 
& 33; Clarke, Zoologist, p. 74: Stubbs, t. c. pp. 142 & 143: 
Robinson, t. c. p. 143 : Oldham, t. c. p. 185. 
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