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Female. General colour of the upper parts dark brown, each 

 feather -with a pale margin ; broad superciliary stripe whitish ; a 

 dusky band behind the eyes ; sides of the head and neck whitish, 

 streaked with black ; chin and throat white ; feathers of the lower 

 fore neck blackish, with whitish edges ; breast and abdomen white; 

 sides, vent, and under tail-coverts white, with brown-black spots ; 

 wings greyish brown ; a dull metallic-green speculum, bounded 

 anteriorly and posteriorly by two white bands ; under wing-coverts 

 brown, margined with white, the greater ones pure grey, the central 

 ones, like the axiUaries, white. Size smaller than that of the male. 



Younc/ in first plumage resemble the females, but are darker and 

 more suffused with rufous on the breast. 



Adult males in moulting plumaye closely resemble adult females, 

 but are darker in colour, and may be distinguished by the brighter 

 alar speculum (Setbohm). 



Doivny nestling resembles that of the Mallard, but it is smaller, 

 and has a broad unbroken buff streak above the eye, and a well- 

 defined dark streak through tlie eye (Yarrell). 



Hah. Palocarctic Region, wintering in Xorthern Africa as far south 

 as 8hoa and 8omali-land, in Palestine, India with Ceylon, in Burmah, 

 China, Japan, Philippines, Borneo, Java, Celebes, Teruate, and Ceram. 



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d. S ad. .«k. 



e. cJ ad. sk. 



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g, r. (S 2 ad. sk. 



s~v. cS 2 ad. sk. 



7C. (5 ad. sk. 



■r, y- d 2 ad. sk. 



s. c? ad. sk. 



a'. 2 ad. sk. 



b'. 2 ad. 8k. 

 c', d'. cJ 2 imm. st. 

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England, March. 

 Norfolk, Feb. 

 Rockland, Norfolk, Sept. 

 Norwich, March. 



Suffolk. 

 Somersetshire. 

 Shoreham, Kent, March. 

 Egypt, April. 

 Bagdad. 



Fao, Persian Gulf. 



Omsk, May. 



Pamir. 



Yarkand. 



Kandahar, March. 



Gilgit, Sept. 



Leli, Sept. {F. Sfoliczka). 



India. 



Ahmedabad, Dec. 



Karachi, Dec. (E.A.Butler). 



Sanibhur, ^larch, April {R. 



M. Adam). 

 Guriraon, Delhi, April, May 



( W. N. Chill). 

 Sultanpur, Gm-gaon, Jan., 



March, Dec. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Montagu Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 SheUey Coll. 

 Kenneth Loftus, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. D. Cummmg, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 St. George Littledale, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Colonel J. Biddulph 



[P.]. 

 Dr. R. Bowdler 



Sharpe [P.]. 

 Lt.-Col. Swinhoe 



[P.]. 

 Colonel J. Biddulph 



[P.J. 

 India Museum [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 



