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Show 378 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [Apr. 4, Hartlaub (I. s. ci) says there is no sufficient difference American and Indian specimens; but v. Pelzeln distinguishes the American form from the African and Indian birds by its darker flanks. The South-American bird has, as will be seen from the above quotations, usually been identified with the Pato Real, or Anas regia of Molina ; but we now know that the Sarcidiornis does not occur at all in Chili, and that the "Pato Real" of that country is Mareca chiloensis, according to Philippi and Landbeck (Cat. Av. Chil. p. 95), though Molina's vague description may have had some reference to Cairina moschata. If, then, as would appear to be the case, the American bird is really separable from the Indian, the proper name for this species is carunculata-a term based by Illiger on Azara's Pato crestudo, and published by Lichtenstein in 1818. The range of this Duck in South America is by no means extended ; and it has seldom been noticed beyond the upper waters of the basin of the Parana. It occurs, however, in the interior of Bahia, according to Prince Maximilian ; and Natterer met with it at Barra do Rio Negro, ou the Amazons, in July 1832. Genus 3. CAIRINA. Cairina, Fleming, Phil, of Zool. p. 260 (1822). Moschatus, Less. Ind. Orn. i. p. 633 (1831). Gymnathus, Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 403 (1834). This genus contains a single form, originally American, but now introduced into the Old World and naturalized in many parts of the tropics. CAIRINA MOSCHATA. Anas moschata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 199; Max. Beitr. iv. p. 910 (Brazil); Schl. Mus. des P.-B. Anseres, p. 73. Cairina moschata, Cab. in Schomb. Guiana, iii. p. 763; Tsch. F. P. p. 54; D'Orb. Voy. i. p. Ill; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 440 (Brazil), et La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 514 (Parana and Tucuman) ; J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 266 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 65 (Honduras) ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 232 (Guatemala) ; P.Z. S. 1864, p. 373 (Panama), 1866, p. 200 (Ucayali), 1867, p. 979 (Pebas); Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 198; Tavlor, Ibis, 1860, p. 315 (Honduras); Leot. Ois. Trim p. 521 (1866) (Trinidad): Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 320 (1870); Reinh. Fugl. Bras. Camp. p. 21 (1870) (Lagoa Santa) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 315 (Mazatlan). Carina moschata, Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 142 (1838). Cairina sylvestris, Stephens, Zool. xiii. p. 69. Anas mariana, Shaw, Nat. Misc. ii. t. 69(?). El Pato Grande o Real, Az. Apunt. no. 437. Le Canard musquS, Buff. Pl. Enl. 986. Capite toto, collo, et corpore subtus brunneo-nigris, abdomine albis angustissimis transvittato; dorso iridescente purpureo, plumis singulis nigro marginatis, scapularibus et tertiariis |