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Show 388 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [APR. 4, 7. QUERQUEDULA VERSICOLOR. Pato pico de tres colores, Az. Apunt. no. 440 (Paraguay) unde Anas versicolor, Vieill. N. D. v. p. 109 (1816), et Enc. Me'th. p. 353 (1823) ; Schl. Mus. des P. B. Anseres, p. 57- Querquedula versicolor, Cassin in Gilliss's Exp. ii. p. 203 (1856) (Chili) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 389 (Falklands) ; 1867, p. 335 (Chili); Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 161 (Falklands); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 146 (Buenos Ayres) ; Ibis, 1870, p. 499 (Sandy Point), et Nomencl. p. 129; Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 499. Anas maculirostris, Licht. Doubl. p. 84 (1823), ex Azara; Burm. J. fur Orn. 1860, p. 266, et La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 516 (Mendoza) ; Sund. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 126 (Galapagos). Querquedula maculirostris, Gay, Faun. Chil. p. 452, Phil. & Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 42. Pterocyanea maculirostris, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 28. Anas fretensis, King, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 15 ; Jard. & Selb. 111. Orn. iv. t. 29. Cyanopterus fretensis, Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 131 (1838). Anas muralis, Merr. Ersch. & Grub. Enc. sect. i. vol. xxxv. p. 42. Supra nigra albo transfasciolata, fasciis in uropygio frequentiori-bus et angustioribus ; pileo fumoso-nigro unicolori, capitis lateribus cum gutture lacteo-albis; abdomine albido, in pectore ochracescente induto et nigro guttata, in vertice magis albicante et nigro frequenter transfasciato ; alis extus grisescenti-fuscis; speculo purpurascenti-viridi, supra, et subtus albo marginato subtus fascia altera subterminali nigra ornato ; hypochondriis fasciis latis albis et nigris distincte notatis; rostro nigro, ad mandibula basin utrinque aurantiaca,pedibus corylinis: lony. tota 16*5, ala 7'6, cauda 3*4, tarsi 1*3, rostri a rictu 1*9. Fern, mari similis sed coloribus paulo dilutioribus et speculo atari obscuriore [Descr. exempl. ex Chilia (Leyboldf]. Hab. Paraguay (Azara) ; Buenos Ayres (Hudson) ; Mendoza (Burm.) ; Magellan Straits (King) ; Falklands (Abbott) ; Chili (Phil, et Landb.) ; Galapagos (Sund.). This Duck, first described by Azara from Paraguay, is found all over Antarctic America. Mr. Hudson obtained it at Conchitas near Buenos Ayres; and according to Burmeister it occurs at Mendoza (at the foot of the Cordillera) near marshes and brooks. In Chili Philippi and Landbeck found this species somewhat rarer than Q. cyanoptera. In East Falkland it is not common ; but when it does occur it is usually seen in numbers. It breeds in the Falklands ; for Capt. Abbott had young birds brought to him, though he never found a nest. The supposed extension of the range of this Duck to the Galapagos is rather surprising. It rests upon the authority of Sundevall, who determined the specimen. 8. QUERQUEDULA PUNA. Anas puna, Tsch. Faun. Per. p. 309 (Peru) ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 439. |
