PINK-EAKED DUCK. 
Birds Austr., p. 108, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 1046, 
1901 ; Lyons, Emu, Vol. I., p. 136, 1902 ; Carter, ih., Vol. III., p. 212, 1904 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 108, 1906 ; Bemey, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 157, 
1907 ; Batey, ih., Vol. VII., p. 14, 1907 ; Austin, ib., p. 79, 1907 ; Ingram, Ibis 
1907, p. 395 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 36, 1908 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 79, 1909 ; Sassi, Journ. fiir Orn., 1909, p. 383 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 225, 1910 ; Stone, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 121, 1912 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 239, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 92, 1913 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 84, 1913 ; Macgilhvray, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
p. 147, 1914. 
Malacorhyndius fasciatus Wagler, Isis 1832, p. 1235. 
Malacorynchus memhranaceus Swainson, Classif, Birds, Vol. II., p. 366, 1837. 
Malacorhyndius memhrinacea Eyton, Monogr. Anat., p. 136, 1838. 
Malacorhynchus iodotis Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 11th year, no. 6, col. 128, 
July 21, 1844 (see reprint, p. 151), New South Wales ; id., Descr. Mamm. Ois., 
p. 246, 1847. 
Anas iodotis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. VI., Anseres, p. 36, 1866. 
Anas malacorhyncha (nec Gmehn) id., ih. 
Malacorhynchus malacorhynchus (nec Gmelin) Hartert, Katal. Vogels Mus. Senckenb., 
p. 232, 1891. 
Malacorhynchus memhranaceus assimilis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 86, 1912 ; 
Eitzroy River, N.W.A. 
Malacorhynchus memhranaceus memhranaceus Mathews, ih. 
Distribution. Austraha ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Crown of head and fore-head hoary grey ; a patch of dark brown in front 
of the eye and which encircles the latter extending also along the sides of the 
crown on to the nape and hind-neck ; a pink spot on each side of the head behind 
the eye ; throat, lores, a narrow eyebrow, and a narrow ring roimd the eye white ; 
sides of face, sides of neck, and entire imder-surface including the under wing- 
coverts white barred with brown, more broadly on the breast and sides of the 
body and more narrowly on the abdomen and sides of the face ; axillaries and 
under tail-coverts pure white ; upper back, scapulars and wings earth-brown 
barred with buff on the mantle and minutely vermiculated with buff on the 
scapulars and upper wing-coverts ; bastard-wing dark brown edged with white ; 
primary-coverts and quills dark brown ; inner primary- and secondary-qhills 
tipped with white ; sides of the rump white barred with brown ; rump and upper 
tail-coverts dark brown, the latter broadly tipped with white ; tail-feathers brown 
fringed with white at the tips. Bill and feet slaty-blue ; eyes brown. Total 
length 420 mm. ; cuhnen 62, wing 181, tail 63, tarsus 35. 
Adult female. Distinguished from the adult male only by its smaller size. Culmen 
57 mm., wing 177, tail 61, tarsus 31. 
Nest. A deserted nest of a Heron (or a nest made as a platform), with down built up 
to form an egg cavity sometimes four inches high, which, being elastic, covers over 
the eggs more or less when the bird leaves the nest. 
Eggs. Clutch, six to eight ; kite shaped ; ground-colour creamy-white, surface dull ; 
axis 45-46 mm. ; diameter 32. 
Breeding-season, August to December. 
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