INDIAN DUCKS AND TEEIR ALLIES. 19 



Eunetta falcata, Salvadori, Cat. " Birds of British Museum," XXVII, 

 p. 218 ; Biunford, " Birds of India," IV, p. 438. 



JJescriptlon : Adult MaU. — " Crown deep oliestnut ; sides of the Lead 

 bronze-purple, greener posteriorly ; a long green mane on the buck of 

 the nape ; throat and upper part of the nape white, intersected below by a 

 green collar ; mantle and upper scapulars with narrow crescentic bands 

 grey and blackish ; rump blackish ; basal upper tail coverts grey, vermi- 

 oulated with black, the longer ones black and eJitirely hiding the tail ■; 

 upper breast w^aved with alternate crescentic bars of black and white, pro- 

 ducing a regular scaly appearance ; lower breast wbitish, each feather 

 with black bars, one of which is sub-terminal ; sides, flanks, and abdomen 

 waved with narrow black and greyish bands; under tail coverts black, very 

 long and reaching beyond the tail ; on each side of the tail coverts a distinct 

 buff patch, the bases of the feathers being black, showing a beautiful black 

 bar, which separates the bufFy patch from another silky-white band formed 

 by the tips of the lowest iltink feathers ; scapulars grey, narrowly edged 

 with black, tmd more or less distinctly whitish on the edges ; a black 

 patch on the outer scapulars ; wing coverts grey, the last row whitish •; 

 wing speculum on the secondaries dark glossy green, banded below by 

 a narrow whitish band at the tip of the secondaries ; tertials very long 

 and ntirrow, sickle-shaped, with the shafts whitish ; the webs velvety 

 glossy black, the edges and part of the inner webs grey ; quills dark 

 grey, almost blackish towards the tip ; under wing coverts wlute, but 

 the greater ones grey ; axillaries white ; tail feathers grey, with narrow 

 white edges ; bill greenish-black ] feet dull blue-grey, darker on the 

 web ; iris brown. Total length 19" ; wing 10" ; tail 3" ; culmen 1'8" ; 

 tarsus 1-35" " (Salvadori). 



" Irides deep brown ; bill perfectly black ; legs and feet drab with 

 nn olive tinge ; the webs, except immediately alongside the toes (where 

 "they are unicolorous with these), and claws dusky black. 



" A frontal spot ending in a point on the culmen, about O"!:" long and 

 O'S" wide, pure white. Of another Indian-killed male the wing also 

 measures 9-5"" (Hume and Marshall). "Bill from gape 2-1"" 

 <Blanford). 



Female. — " Head and neck brown, streaked with whitish, mach paler 

 'beneath ; back and scapulars brown with concentric pale rufous bands ; 

 iower back and rump blackish ; upper tail coverts browii, with con- 



