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al)out li inches). Its greater wing-coverts (like those of the male 

 Pintail) are tipped with chestnut-buflF. 



Figures : Temniinek and Schlegel, Fauna Japoniea, Aves, pi. 82 b 

 (male), pi. 82 c (female) ; Dresser, Birds of Europs, vi. pi. 428. 



The Spectacled Teal has not yet been recorded from Yezzo or the 

 Kurile Islands, but is a common winter visitor to Southern Japan. 

 There is an example in tlie Swinhoe collection from Awomori Bay, 

 opposite Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1877, p. 147), and there are 

 three in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. There are two examples 

 in the Norwich Museum sent by Mr. Ringer from Nagasaki. 



Under the various names of Anas formosa, Querquedula formosa, 

 Eunetta formosa, Anas ylocitans, Querquedula glocitans, or Eunetta 

 glocitam, the Spectacled Teal has been recorded as breeding through- 

 out Eastern Siberia, and wintering in China, occasionally wandering 

 as far as France and Calcutta. It is extremely improbable that it 

 reaches Southern Japan without passing along the coasts of Yezzo. 



238. ANAS FALCATA. 

 (FALCATED TEAL.) 



Avasfakata, Georgi, Reis. Russ. Reichs, i. p. 167 (1775). 



The Falcated Teal is not a small bird (wing from carpal joint 9 to 

 9| inches). Its axillaries and under wing-coverts are nearly white. 

 Its greater wing-coverts are grey, shading into white at the tips. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pi. 429. 



The Falcated Teal is a winter visitor to all the Japanese Islands. 

 The Perry Expedition found it to be one of the most abundant of the 

 water-birds of Japan, and noticed it at various points during the 

 voyage, obtaining specimens at Hakodadi (Cassin, Exp. Am. Squad. 

 China Seas and Japan, ii. p. 231) ; and there is also an example in 

 the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi obtained by Captain Blakiston 

 in April (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 164). There are eight examples in 

 the Prver collection from Yokohama, and it is recorded from Nasra- 

 saki (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 98), where 

 the examples obtained by the Siebold Expedition were doubtless also 

 procured (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 127). 



The Falcated Teal breeds in Eastern Siberia and winters in China. 

 It is a rare accidental visitor to Europe. 



