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glossy green; secondaries glossy green, broadly tipped with white; 

 primaries dark brown on the basal halves, then white with the tip black; 

 under wing-coverts greenish black ; upper tail-coverts white freckled with 

 brown; under tail-coverts dark brown mottled with white; sides of the 

 body vermiculated with brown. 'Bill black; iris bright red; legs, toes, 

 and webs black, sides of tarsus and toes dusky yellow ; claws horny brown.^ 

 (Oates.) Length, 330; wing, 165; tail, 76; culmen, 23; tarsus, 25. 



"^Female. — Forehead and a supercilium dirty white; crown and nape 

 dark brown; lores and line through eyes blackish; remainder of head, 

 the whole neck, and upper breast dull white, mottled with brown, the 

 marks on breast and hind neck becoming well-defined wa^^ lines; lower 

 plumage dull white, streaked and distinctly barred with brown; whole 

 upper surface, wings, and tail brown; secondaries tipped with white and 

 inner primaries also more narrowly tipped with white; upper tail-coverts 

 white, freckled wnth broAvn; under wing-coverts brown, each feather 

 margined with white. 'Bill brown above, yellowish below; iris brown; 

 legs and toes greenish yellow.' ( Oates. ) Size a trifle less than the male. 



"Male in winter. — Similar to the female, but always retains the con- 

 spicuous white patch on the primaries. 



''Young. — 'Similar to the female till the first spring.' (Oates.) 



"Young in down. — Upper parts, flanks, and under tail-coverts blackish 

 brown; a broad superciliary stripe, cheeks, throat, front neck, and breast 

 white; a broad line through the eyes; two broad white spots on each 

 side of back, one near the base of wings, and the other, much longer, on 

 the sides of the rump; feathers of tail blackish, very long, and stiff." 

 (Salvadori.) 



A male collected near Anao, Tarlac Province, Luzon, March 14, 1904, 

 measured, 290 in length; wing, 165; tail, 68; culmen from frontal 

 feathers, 21; tarsus, 27; middle toe with claw, 42. A female from the 

 same locality and of the same date measured: Length, 290; wing, 165; 

 tail, 66; culmen from frontal feathers, 22; tarsus, 23; middle toe with 

 claw, 39. 



"The eggs of the Indian dwarf goose, or 'cotton teal,' are generally 

 truly ellipical in form, occasionally compressed at the smaller end, very 

 smooth and glossy, and cream-color. They "measure from 39 to 44 in 

 length and from 30 to 35 in breadth." (Oates.) 



This little bird is the only species of goose so far recorded from the 

 Islands; it occurs on the Laguna de Bay and a few specimens were 

 secured in Tarlac Province, Luzon. Oates lists three eggs of this species 

 as having been collected in Siquijor by the Steere Expedition but Steere 

 does not mention the species. A large goose has been reported as oc- 

 curring in the northern part of Luzon but no specimen has been taken. 



