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Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 
of the Philippines, but that species has the superciliary stripe and face rufous, 
a narrow white band on the wing, the general plumage without the conspicuous 
pale edges to the feathers. Am<xs obscura of N. America is a good deal similar 
in general plumage, but is much larger, has the speculum blue, without the 
buff superciliary and blackish transocular stripe. Somewhat more remote in 
degree of resemblance is the female of the common Anas hoscas (or male after 
the nuptial moult), but, while the male of Anas hoscas nearly all the year wears 
a very handsome and distinct dress, the two sexes of the Australasian Wild 
Duck are similar at all seasons. 
GENUS NETTION Kaup. 
Teal are of small size; culmen 1 to IV2 times as long as the tarsus, the 
nail small; hallux less than half the length of the tarsus; wing-speculum rather 
broad; secondaries Vs the length of the wing. Of cosmopolitan distribution. 
Sexes of some species dissimilar in coloration, of others not so. 
372. NETTION GIBBERIPRONS (S. Mtill.). 
Wood Teal. 
a. Anas (Mareca) gibberifrons (1) S. MlilL, Verb. Natuurk. Oomm. 1839—44, 159. 
h. Mareca gibberifrons (1) Gray, Gen. B. ill, 614, Nr. 5 (1845); (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 
1872, Vm, 102; (3) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 144. 
c. Anas gibbifrons (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 487. 
d. Anas punctata (1) Gld., HIj. B. Austr. 1865, D, 365, part; (IJ^) hewt., P. Z. S. 1871, 
649, pt., fig. 2, fig. 4; (3) Echw., J. f. 0. 1877, 218; (4) W. Bias., ib. 1883, 121; 
(5) Ecbw., t. c. 122. 
e. Anas gibberifrons (1) Scbl., Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 58; (2) Eosenb., Malay. Arcbip. 
1878, 279; (3) Sclai, P. Z. S. 1880, 452, 519, 535; (4) Eosenb., Zool. Garten 
1881, 167; (V) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1882, 452, pi. XXXIH; (6) Salvad., Om. Pap. 
1882, m, 398; (7) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1882, XIJ, 219; (8) W. Bias., 
Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1885, 325; 1886, 171; (9) Eamsay, Tab. List 1888, 22, 31; 
(10) Buller, B. N. Zeal. 2^^ ed. 1888, n, 261; (11) North, Nests & Eggs B. Austr. 
1889, 342; (12) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1892, 70; (13) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber’s 
Eeise 1893, m, 285, 306; (14) P.& E. Sarasin, Z. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 1895, XXX, 
333; (15) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1896, Nr. 1, p. 15. 
f. Anas gracilis (1) Buller, Ibis 1869, 41. 
Nettion gibberifrons (1) Gray, HL. 1871, 111, 83, Nr. 10663; (II) Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, 
XXVn, 254, pin, fig. 2; (3) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 165, 181; (4) Salvad., 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1896, XXXVI, 119; (5) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 590. 
g. Anas castanea (1) Earns, (nee Eyt.), Pr. L. Soc. N. S. W. 1879, HI, 115, 301; ib. IV , 102. 
h. Mareca castanea (1) Meyer (nec Eyt.], Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 1881, 767. 
For furtber synonymy and references of. Salvador! e 6, II. 
Figures and descriptions. Sclater e V\ Salvador! e 6, II', Newton d2 (sternum and 
tracbea); Scblegel el; Vorderman e 7; Buller elO. 
Adult. Above sepia-brown, witb pale brown edges to tbe feathers; lesser wing-coverts. 
