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Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 
of the globe, and of these the present species is most nearly allied to D.fvlva 
(Gm.) of the Indian countries, Africa and America, which has no black spots 
on the neck and breast and the upper tail-coverts buff-white, and to jD. javanica 
(Horsf), which ranges from India to Java, and like D.fulva has the neck and 
breast unspotted, but the upper tail-coverts chestnut. 
The hallux of Dendrocycna is scarcely at all lohated, but furnished with a 
considerable hooked claw, which doubtless stands in connection with its arboreal 
habits. Salvadori points out that the lower part of the tarsus in front, being 
covered with small reticulate scales, and not with transverse scutellae, serves to 
distinguish Dendrocycna from all the Anatinae. The name has commonly been 
spelt Dendrocygna^ but Sclater (f 1) has shown that Dendrocycna is correct. 
370. DENDROCYCNA GUTTATA Schl. 
White-spotted Tree Duck. 
a. Dendrocygna guttulata “ Temm.”; (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 36 (descr. null.); “S. Miill. 
MS.” (2) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1864, 300; (3) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 464; 
(IV) Salvad., Oat. B. 1895, XXVn, 164, pi. I; (5) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresden 
1896, Nr. 2, p. 20. 
b. Dendrocygna guttata [Forsten MS.]; (1) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 85; ('SJWald., 
Tr. Z. S. 1872, VITI, 102; (3) Eosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 279; (4) W. Bias., 
J. f. 0. 1883, 140; (5) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1883, 52, 200; (6) W. Bias., Z. ges. Om. 
1886, 202; (7) id., J. f. 0. 1890, 146; (8) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 253. 
c. Dendrocycna guttulata (1) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1880, 509. 
d. Anas guttata (1) Eosenb., Zool. G-arten 1881, 167. 
Dendrocycna gpittata (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1882, XVm, 401; (2) id., Om. Pap. 
1882, m, 388; (3) id., ib. Agg. 1891, 210; (4) id.. Oat. B. 1895, XXVD, 164. 
“Taminga”, Kabruang, Talaut, Nat. Coll. 
“Mann Lantang”, Tonkean, East Celebes, iid. 
“Bebetalaga”, Main, Minahassa, Malay, iid. 
For further synonymy and references see Salvadori 1, 4. 
Figure and descriptions. Salvadori a IV, 1, 4\ Schlegel b 1. 
Adult. Head above brown of a burnt umber tint, a stripe down hind neck darker 
brown; upper parts dark brown, the featliers broadly edged with pale brown; 
reniiges dark brown; lower back and rump blackish with pale tips; upper tail- 
coverts black, the basal ones conspicuously barred or spotted with white; tail 
blackish, paler at tip; eyebrow, face and sides of upper neck’) greyish hrown, 
mottled with whitish; upper throat whiter, tinged with rufous; loral stripe passing 
through the eye dark brown; lower neck and under parts yellowish rufous, 
becoming almost white on the abdomen, the bases of the feathers of the neck and 
hreast white, marked with brown so as to enclose wliite spots, the spots larger and 
very conspicuous on the sides of body and on flanks, under tail-coverts barred black 
and white; wing below dark brown, some of the wing-coverts and ends of the axil- 
laries haired with white (Kabruang, Nov. 1893; Nat. Coll. — C 13019). 
*) Keuleman’s plate in Salvadori’s Catalogue shows the grey of the upper neck shai-ply defined 
from the rufous of the lower neck, but the transition is more gradual. 
