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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



B O l^ZC B .A. "Y 



Natural gi^jtorg §ocietir. 



Vol. XII. BOMBAY. No. 2. 



INDIAN DUCKS AND THEIR ALLIES. 

 By E. C. Stuart Baker, F.Z. S. 



Part VI, with Plate VI. 

 (^Continued from p. 31 of Vol. XI T.) 

 Genus MARECA. 



Tha geniis Marcca differs principally from Nettion in having a 

 smaller bill, which is distinctly narrower and rather tapering towards 

 the tip ; from Chuulelasmus it differs in not having the camillae of 

 the upper mandible so prominent, and the tail feathers are more pointed, 

 the central rectrices extending beyond the others. 



There are only three species in the genus, of which but one, M.penelopey 

 reaches our limits ; of the other two, one, il/. americana^ is a North 

 American form, whilst the other, M, sib'ditris, is a South American bird. 

 All three are much the same in size. 



23. MaUECA PENELOPE. 



The W'lgeon. 

 Mareca penelope, Jerdon, " Birds of India," III, p. 804 ; Hume, 

 "Str. Feath.," I, p. 271 ; Butler, ibid, IV, p. 30; Hume, ibid, id., 

 ibid, VII, p. 491 ; Davis and Wendon, ibid, p. 93 ; Scully, ibi(/, 

 VIII, p. ()3 ; Hume, Cat., No. 963 ; Hume and Marshall, " Game 

 Birds of India," III, p. 197; Vidal, "Str. Feath.," IX, p. 92; Butler, 

 ibid, p. 438 ; Reid, idk/, X, p. 82 ; Hume, ibid, p. 245 ; Davidson, ibid. 



