. A monograph on the anatidae, or duck tribe. m in maribus caruncula magna compressa culmine. Nares rotundatae magna;.Alee una calcaria armata?, et remigibus apices versus incurvatis. Cauda ad apicem truncata. Anat. Char. Ignoti. Ext. Char. Feet with the posterior toes moderate, placed high on the tarsi. Tarsimoderate. Bill in the males with a large compressed caruncle on the top. Wings each armedwith a spur, and with the (mills incurved towards the points. Tail squared at the end. Anat. Char. Unknown. Carina. Steph. Anser. Linn. Sarkidiornis nobis. Plectropterus. Steph. Type. Sarkidiornis mel


. A monograph on the anatidae, or duck tribe. m in maribus caruncula magna compressa culmine. Nares rotundatae magna;.Alee una calcaria armata?, et remigibus apices versus incurvatis. Cauda ad apicem truncata. Anat. Char. Ignoti. Ext. Char. Feet with the posterior toes moderate, placed high on the tarsi. Tarsimoderate. Bill in the males with a large compressed caruncle on the top. Wings each armedwith a spur, and with the (mills incurved towards the points. Tail squared at the end. Anat. Char. Unknown. Carina. Steph. Anser. Linn. Sarkidiornis nobis. Plectropterus. Steph. Type. Sarkidiornis melanatus. 21 [anserine. Various have been the genera in which the bird before us has been placed (Anser melanotus,, with none of which does it agree. We have therefore proposed a new one for it. Affinities. We have placed it, as far as we have been able (no anatomical character beingknown), in what appears to us to be its proper place, namely between the genera Chenalopexand Anser. It agrees with the former, in having a spur on the ] 22


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