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ANATIDffi. 
for a sitting, creamy-white, the texture of the shell being line and 
the surface smooth. 
A set in the Dobroyde Collection, taken by Mr. James Ramsay 
•at Yanda, in the interior of New South Wales, on the 15th of 
November 1879, measure as follows : — length (A) 1*9 x 1 -42 inch; 
(B) 1-9 x 1-43 inch; (C) 1-97 x 1-42 inch ; (D) 1-95x 1-44 inch; 
(E) 1-91 x 1-43 inch; (F) 1-94 x 1*4 inch ; (G) 1-9 x 1-43 inch ; 
(H) 1-95 x 1 *43 inch. 
This species commences to breed in August and continues the 
four following months. 
ITab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania,West 
and South-west Australia. (Hammy.) 
ANAS GIBBERIFRONS, Muller. 
Miiller, Verliandelingen Land en Volkenkunde, 1839-41, p. 159. 
“ There has been much discussion about this species which had 
always been looked upon in Australia until the last few years, as 
the female of A. caslauea (A. punctata of Gould’s Bds. Aust.) I 
have not been able to find any good characteristics between the 
females of these species up to the present time. But the males 
may at once be known, as in A. gibberi/rons, the sexes are alike 
in plumage; in A. castanea the male has a rich chestnut-red 
breast and a glossy green head when adult, and even on the young 
male the chest is tinged with rufous. The eggs are usually six to 
ten in number, and are laid in the hollow branches of trees, itc. 
Creamy-white. Length 2T5 x 1 *45 inches.” ( Ramsay , P.L.S., 
N.S.W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1151.) 
A fine set of these eggs taken by Mr. K. II. Bennett at 
Ivanhoe, on the 9th of September 1885, from the hollow limb of 
a tree, and which were enveloped in a mass of down, measure as 
