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same in botli kinds and the colour also, generally a pale buff drab, miTclx 

 stained as incubation progresses. The two ty}>es average respectively 

 2-05'' X ]-G2" and 2-18'' X 1'60". 



They do fairly well in captivity, bnt are difficult to tame, and gene- 

 rally clear off as soon as they can fly. They have been known to breed 

 in confinement; those in the Calcutta Zoologioixl Gardens did so in 1885» 

 They will also interljreed with the domestic duck ; and there is a sj)ecimen 

 in the British Mnseum collection of <a hybrid between A. -pG^cllor- 

 hyncha and A. hoscas. 



The l)irds are very good parents, the duck sits close, and both she and 

 the drake show the greatest consternation when tlieir nests are discovered. 

 Sometimes the disturber of their peace is tempted away from the vicinity 

 of the nest by the duck pretending to be wounded, and fluttering about; 

 a short distance aliead, leading him to believe capture to be aia easy 

 matter until the capture is really attempted. Sometimes the birds' 

 wheel round and round in the air just above the nest, and refuse t© 

 leave even after its contents have been rifled. They also show great 

 affection to one another, and one of a pair killed, the remainmg one has 

 been known to refuse to leave the spot until he or she, as the ctise may 

 be, has fallen a victhn to its constancy. 



Genus EUNETTA. 



The genus Eunetta may be at once distinguished from Anas by tlK? 

 sickle-shaped inner secondaries in the male, and by the remarkable- 

 length of lx)th upper and lower tail coverts, which extend beyond tho 

 rectrices. 



From Chaulilasmus, Eimetta may be distingnished by the number of 

 rectrices, which is 16 in the former and only 14 in the latter„ 

 The females however of C. strepevus and -E. falcata are so much alike 

 that these differences are given in full below. There is only one species 

 in this genus, E. falcata, which occurs throughout Eastern Asia. , 



21. Eunetta falcata. 



The Bronze-capped Teal. ■ ■ 



■ Anas falcata, McLeod, " Str. Foath." X, p. 168. 



Querquedula falcata^ Hmne, " Str. Feath.," IV, p, 225; id.y 

 fh'ul, VII, i>. 491 ; Ibhl, Vni, p. 115 ; id.^ Cat. No. DGG, l)is ; Hume 

 and Marshall, " Game Birds of India," 111, p. 231 ; Reid, "Str. 

 Feath.," X, p. 84, 



