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black, margined with light ochrcous. Under wing-coverts 

 white, irregularly waved with blackish. Under parts pale 

 yellowish -russet, variegated with russet of deeper hues on breasts 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts. 



$. Somewhat smaller; wing 3*7 in. Wants the black, white, 

 and grey on the face. The ear-coverts are tinged with russet ; 

 and so are the sides of the crown, which is otherwise marked like 

 tlie back. Eyebrow and throat pale dingy ochreous. Moustache 

 lightly sprinkled with blackish. Rump and tail-coverts nearly 

 as bright russet as in the male, but the rest of the plumage 

 much paler and dingier. This species is in Amoy a winter 

 visitant. 



Dec. 31st. Four Teal shot up the river. They are all hand- 

 some cock birds and, according to Dr. Giglioli, of the Aix for- 

 mosa, Brandt, which I take to be the true Anas glocitans of Pallas. 

 Pallas's description (Zoogr. R.-As. ii. p. 262) answers well to our 

 bird J and the form of trachea noted by him is precisely that of 

 our species. My four specimens all have the bill greyish- black 

 throughout. Their legs vary from an ochreous to a light olive 

 tinge, browner on the toes, and blackish-brown on the inter- 

 digital webs. They differ fi-om Selby's " Bimaculated Teal " 

 (Brit. Orn. ii. p. 321)*, in the following important particulars : — 

 No orange on base of bill or on legs. A broad white line on 

 the side of the breast, where the feathers overlap the wing. 

 Crown deep black, in some birds more or less edged with 

 reddish-brown. Greater coverts broadly tipped with orange-buff. 

 Sides of mantle french-grey, waved finely with black. Speculum 

 broadly tipped with white. Upper tail-coverts olive-brown and 

 brown, margined inwardly with ochreous. Middle tail-feathers 

 not black, but light brown. These are the chief distinctions, 

 and quite sufficient to show that the eastern bird is distinct from 

 its western congener. That this plumage is not simply seasonal, 

 I can show by a specimen I possess which died in our aviary at 

 Amoy in June, and which is similarly marked to those now 

 procured. 



The Bluethroat, Cyanecula suecica (L.), has occurred in 



* [This is now pretty generally admitted to be a hybrid, cf. V. Z. S. 

 1861, p. 393. —Ed.] 



