(CRESTED DUCK.)
+Sarcidiornis regia+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 513 (Tucuman);
_id. P. Z. S._ 1872, p. 365. +Sarcidiornis carunculata+, _Scl. et
Salv. P. Z. S._ 1876, p. 377; _Sclater, P. Z. S._ 1876, p. 695,
pl. lxviii.
_Description._--Head and neck white, spotted with black, hind neck
almost black; base of neck and body beneath white; flanks black;
back and wings black; secondaries glossed with bronze, the scapulars
with purple; lower back grey; tail brown; bill, with caruncle on the
culmen, and feet black: whole length 30·0 inches, wing 15·0, tail
6·0. _Female_ similar, but rather smaller.
_Hab._ Brazil, Paraguay, and northern confines of Argentina.
Dr. Burmeister met with this Duck in the province of Tucuman, and it
probably occurs also in other places on the northern frontiers of the
Republic.