Order AN8ERIF0RME8 
Family ANATIDM, 
No. 269. 
' STICTONETTA N^VOSA. 
FEECKLED DUCK. 
(Plate 215.)* 
Anas N.EVOSA Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, (Lond.), 1840, p. 177, 1841 ; West Australia. 
Anas ncBvosa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 177 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. VII., 
pi. 10, 1841; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 192; Schlegel, Mus. Pays- 
Bas, Vol. VI., Anseres, p. 63, 1866; Muller, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1869, p. 280; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., pp. 195, 216, 219, 1877 ; Morton, 
Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1884, p. Ixix., 1885. 
Tadorna ncevosa Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 132, 1844 ; id., Genera Birds, 
Vol. III., p. 613, 1845; Reichenbach, Synops. Av. Natat., pi. 93, fig. 431, 1845; 
Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. iii., p. 80, 1871. 
Stictonetta ncevosa Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel., p. ix., 1852 ; Bonaparte, Comptes 
Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLIII., p. 649, 1856 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. 
II., p. 367, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 200, 1878; id., ib., 
Vol. III., p. 154, 1878 ; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1886, p. 244, 1887 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 22, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 340, 
1890 ; Hartert, Ratal. Vogels Mus. Senckenb., p. 228, 1891 ; Harting, Ibis 1894, 
p. 297 ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 324, 1895; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 108, 1899 ; Campbell, Ibis 1899, p. 362, fig. ; id.. Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. II., p. 1049, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 212, 1904 ; Legge, ih., 
Vol. IV., p. 108, 1905 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 206, 1905 ; M‘Clymont, 
Emu, Vol. V., p. 162, 1906 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 108, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 36, 1908 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 79, 1909 ; 
id., ib., p. 133, 1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 225, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, 
Ibis 1910, p. 173 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 239, 1912 ; Stone, Emu, 
Vol. XII., p. 121, 1912; Orton and Sandland, ib., XIII., p. 76, 1913 ; \^North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 88, 1913 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., 
p. 93, 1913. 
Stictonetta ncevosa lesueuri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 87, 1912 ; New South 
Wales. 
Stictonetta ncevosa ncevosa Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Austraha ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Entire upper-surface, throat and fore-neck dark brown inclining to black 
on the head, barred and vermiculated with white or huffy -white, becoming much 
paler on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; axiUaries and under wing-coverts 
white ; quills dark brown, paler on the inner webs. Bill greenish-grey, darker at 
* The Plate is lettered Stictonetta hranda. 
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