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Marmaronetta angustiros;tris.— ^2.hv.Aov\ " Cat., British Mnsenm," 

 XXVII, p. 321 ; Blanford, " Avifauna, Birds of India," IV, 

 p. 454. 



Description. Adult Male. — Whole upper parts a silvery grey, each 

 feather having the central portion darker and brownish and the tip and 

 terminal edge ppler ; the head and nape is more buff in tint and has 

 each feather centred brown, giving it a barred appearance ; the parts 

 surrounding the eye brown, forming a distinct dark brown eye patch ; 

 chin, throat and under part of the neck paler, almost white, with the 

 dark centres much reduced and forming only a stippling ; lower parts 

 white, more or less tinged with buff and grey, and also barred with dark 

 o-rey-brown on the breast, flanks and sides, and, less distinctly, on the 

 lower tail-coverts. Tail a silvery brown-grey, edged paler; wings silver 

 orey, the outer secondaries a purer, paler colour and the inside of the 

 primary quills darker and brown ; all the feathers, coverts and quills, 

 have the shafts brown distinctly shewing against the grey. 



" Length 18-3" to 19" ; expanse 28-5" to 29-5" ; tail from vent 3-6" 

 to 4"0"; wing 8*J" to 8'5" ; wings when closed reach to 0*7" to 1'5" of 

 end of tail; bill at front, including nail 1-77" to 1-85"; tarsus 1-44" to 

 1-52" ; weight lib. 3ozs. to lib. 5ozs." 



" The legs and feet are dusky olive or dark horny brown, with the 

 claws and webs black ; or horny green with the webs and claws dark 

 grey ; the bill bluish grey, black on the culmen and tip ; or dusky, 

 bounded at the margins of the feathers of the forehead and cheeks 

 with a pale leaden blue line, continued along the margins of both man- 

 dibles to near the tij), and a spot of the same colour just above the 

 nail, the irides are brown." (Hume). 



Female. — Only differs from the male in being smaller, having the 

 eye patch less pronounced and the general plumage duller and more 

 uniform in colour and the crest also is less developed. 



" Length 16-9" to 17*5" ; expanse 27" to 28" ; tail from vent 2'8" to 

 B'7" ; wing 7*9" to 8-1" ; wings when closed reach to within 0*5" to 1*0" 

 of the end of the tail; bill at front TG" to 1*75"; tarsus 1*4" to Vb" ; 

 weight lib. to lib. 3ozs." (Hume). 



" Length 15-75" ; expanse 26*5" ; wing 7-G2" ; tail from vent 2*75"." 



" Legs and feet greenish plumbeous ; irides dark brown ; bill dusky 

 plumbeous, darkest on the culmen." (Butler). 



