122 INDIAN DUCKS 



(-21) DENDROCYCNA JAVANICA. 

 THE LESSER OE COMMON WHISTLING-TEAL. 



Dendrocygna arcuata, llinnc, S. F. i, p. 260 ; nJ. Ncsls d' Eijas, p. 639 ; 



I'}. S. /•'. ii, p. 315; Ball, ihid. p. 483; 0<itc><, ilu'd. v, p. 169. 

 Dendrocyg-na awsuree, Jcnlon, Jl. uf I. iii, p. 786. 

 Dendrocyg'na javanica, Hninc ,(' Davis, S. F. vi, pp. 486, 488; Cnpps, 



ibiil. vii, p. 811 ; Hiiiiic, i/nd. viii, p. 71 ; Hiniic, Cat. No. 952 ; Legge, 



B. of C. p. 1069 ; Hume d.' Marsh. Game-B. iii, p. 109 ; BimjJiam, S. F. 



ix, p. 198 ; Parl<, ibid. p. 486 ; Oates, ibid, x, p. 245 ; id. B. of B. B. 



ii, p. 273 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 398 ; Hume, Nests it Eggs (Oafces' ed.) 



iii, p. 284. 



Dendrocycna javanica, Salvadon, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 156; Blanford, 

 Arifanna B. 1. iv, p. 430 : Stuart Baler, J. B. N. H. S. xi, p. 562 ; 

 id. Indian Lucks, p. 99 (1908) ; Ireland, J. B. N. II. S. xxv, p. 499 

 (1918J. 



Description. Adult Male.— Forehead and crown brown, paler and 

 reddish on the forehead, and darkest on the occiput ; remainder of head 

 and neck pale fulvous-grey, paler on tlie cheeks, and almost white on the 

 chin and upper throat ; this colour gradually changes into yellowish -grey 

 or yellowish-fulvous on the breast, which again changes into the chest- 

 nut of the lower part, and this again, in its turn, fades into the dirty 

 creamy-white of the lower tail-coverts. Above, the colour of the neck 

 changes into brown on the scapulars and back, where the feathers are 

 broadly margined with golden-rufous ; rump black ; upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; tail brown, very narrowly margined with paler dingy-rufous ; 

 lesser and median wiug-coverfcs chestnut, the latter sometimes mixed 

 with ashy ; greater coverts dark-ashy, rarely splashed with chestnut next 

 the primaries; quills black, the inner secondaries more brown and edged 

 with dingy ash-colour ; flanks chestnut, the feathers sometimes centred 

 paler ; axillaries brown. 



Colours of soft parts. — Irides dark-brown ; bill almost black to slaty- 

 grey, with the nail darker ; feet slaty-brown to dull black. " Eyelids 

 bright yellow." {Salvadori.) 



■' The irides are deep brown ; the eyelids bright yellow to pale golden ; 

 the legs and feet generally dark, at times somewhat pale plumbeous-blue, 

 often dusky in patches, and on the webs and claws blackish ; bill 

 plumbeous to pale dull lilue at the base, shading to black at the tip, the 



