150 ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



Ill the beginning- of August the young ones were already fit for food. 

 I need not say that the young teals were looked upon as a very wel- 

 come change in our somewhat uniform diet of corned beef and salmon. 



An egg cut from the oviduct, June 11, 1883 (No. 219G ; U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 No. 21803), measures 43 by 33.5°^™. 



66. Querquedula querquedula (Lin.). 



1758.— ^«as querquedula Lix., Syst. Nat., 10 ed , I, p. 126.— Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, 

 p. 264 (18-26).- MiDDEND., Sibir. Reis., II, 2 (p. 2-29) (18.53).— Radde, Reis. 

 Sud. Ost-Sibir., II (p. 371) (1863). — SwiXH., P. Z. S., 1863, p. 3-24.— Dybow. 

 & Pahvex, J. f. Orn., 1868, p. 338.— Przew., Putescb. Ussur. (n. 202) 

 {l870).—Pterocijaneaq.T\CZAS.,J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 110.— M, Orn. Faun. 

 Vost. Sibir.. p. 70 (1877).— /rf., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 46.— Id., ibid., 

 1883, p. 343. 



17.58. — Anas circia Lix., Syst. Nat., 10 ed., I, p. 127. — Querquedula c. Swixii., Ibis, 

 1863, p. 434.— W., ibid., 1867, p. 407.— /d., P. Z. S., 1870, p. 427.— M, ibid., 

 1871, p. 418.— Taczan., J. f. Oru., 1874, p. 337.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 2U.—Iid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 18b.— lid., ibid., X, 1882, 

 p. 98.— Blakist., Amend. List B.Jap., p. 34 (1884).— Seeb., Ibis, 1884, p. 

 175. — Stejneger, Naturt'ii, 1884, p. 9. 



The Garganey Teal is a bird of rather rare occurrence everywhere, 

 and in Eastern Asia it is not more numerous than elsewhere. It has 

 not been taken on the islands, and a male in very fine plumage, shot 

 on a hunting excursion to Avatscha on the 2oth of May, 1883, was the 

 only specimen 1 obtained in Kamtschatka. 



The measurements of this individual are as under: 



U. S. Xat. Mu8., Xo. 92,833; L. Stejneger, Xo. 2056. ^ ad. Aratsclia, Kamtsch., May 



25, 1883. 



Total length, 380™™; tail beyond wings, 5™™; wing, 193"™; tail-feathers, 66™™ ; 



exposed cuhnen, 38™™ ; tarsus, 30™™ ; middle toe with claw, 42™™. 



The following notes were taken down froDi the fresh bird : Iris yel- 

 lowish brown; bill dark pearl gray, with ^u olive wash on culmen 

 and anterior half ; feet gray, with a faint brownish tinge on the joints; 

 webs blackish. Rather fat. Testes very large, swollen. 



67. Eunetta falcata (Georgi). 



1775. — Anas falcata Georgi, Reis. Russ., I (p. 167). — Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II. p. 259 

 (18-26).- MiDDEXD., Sibir., Reis., II, 2 (p. 231) (1853).— Kjttl., Denkw. II, 

 p. 307 (1858).— ScHREXCK, Reis. Amurl., I, p. 476 (I860).— Radde, Reis. 

 Sud. Ost.-Sibir., II (p. 369) (1863).— ScHLEG., Mus. P. B. Anser, p. 72 

 (1866).— Dybow. & Parvex, J. f. Oru., 1868, p. 338.— Przew., Putesch. 

 Ussur. (n. 201). — Blakist., Ibis, 1876, p. 335. — Marecaf. Cassix, Exp. Jap. 

 Perry, II, p. 231 {\8bl).— Eunetta f. Swixii., P. Z. S., 1871, p. 419.— /d., 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 164.— Stejxeger, Naturen, 1884, p. 9. —Querquedula f. Tac- 

 ZAN., J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 109.— /rf., ibid., 1874, p. 337.— 7<f., ibid., 1875, p. 

 257.— M, Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir., p. 09 (1877).— /</., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1877, p. \b.— Id., ibid., 1883, p. 343.— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p.214.— 

 lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. IQb.—Iid., ibid., X, 1882, p. 98.— Bla- 

 kist., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 9 (1884).— iVe«)on /. Stejneger, Pr. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1883, p, 71. 



