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Show 1871.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 419 640. EUNETTA FALCATA (Pall.). Anasfalcaria, Lath.; Ibis, 1861, p. 345, 1862, p. 254. Querquedula multicolor, Ibis, 1860, p. 67. Throughout China in winter. Middendorff figures a young male for the female (Sib. Reise, t. xxi.). The female is coloured more as the female of A. boschas, with just a glow of pink on its cheeks. 641. G-DEMIA FUSCA (L.). Very abundant in the Shanghai market. 642. G-DEMIA AMERICANA (Richardson); Ibis, 1863, p. 435; P.Z.S. 1863, p. 324. Shot on the Yangtsze by Capt. Blakiston. I have sought in vain in the Shanghai market for both this and the true CE. nigra (Li). 643. BUCEPHALA CLANGULA (L.). Clangula glaucion, Ibis, 1861, p. 345. I have procured this in winter as far south as Amoy. Common at Shanghai. 644. HARELDA GLACIALIS (L.). Pere David received a specimen of this shot at Takoo, mouth of the Peiho river. 645. AYTHYA FERINA (L.). Shanghai market in winter. 646. FULIX MARILA (L.) ; Ibis, 1861, p. 345, 1862, p. 254. Down the China and Formosan coasts in winter. 647. FULIX CRISTATA (L.) ; Ibis, 1861, p. 345, 1862, p. 254, 1867, p. 399. Comes with the last. 648. FULIX BAERI, Radde, Reise im Suden von Ost-Sib. 1855-59, p. 376, t. xv. On my cruise up the river Yangtsze we stopped at Kinkiang for a day and a half; and I was fortunate enough to procure an adult male of this species. It was being hawked about in the streets. My specimen answers precisely to Radde's description and figure, and looks very much like a cross between Anas boschas and Fulix cristata, having somewhat the head and breast of the former and the body of the latter. But mine is too exact a copy of Radde's type, which he procured from a party of four of the same, to admit of being considered a hybrid. Bill French grey. Irides light yellow. Legs patched with grey and black. Head and neck black, reflecting deep green; breast deep chestnut; upper parts, wings, and tail deep brown; greater wing-coverts white, tipped with bronzed brown ; tertiaries deep bronzed brown, the foremost edged with |
