172 INDIAN DUCKS 



Genus EUNETTA. 



The genns Ewietta may be at once distinguished from Anas 

 by the sickle-shaped inner secondaries in the male, and by the 

 remarkable length of both upper and lower tail-coverts, which 

 extend beyond the rectrices. 



From Chaulelasmus, Eunetta may also be distinguished by the 

 number of rectrices, which is sixteen in the former and only 

 fourteen in the latter. The females, however, of C. strepertis and 

 E. falcata are so much alike that their differences are given in 

 full below. There is only one species in this genus, E. falcata, 

 which occurs throughout Eastern Asia. 



(28) EUNETTA FALCATA. 

 THE BRONZE-CAPPED TEAL, 



Anas falcata, Geoigt, Bemcrk. Reisc. Buss, i, p. 1(57 (1775) (Asiatic 

 Russia) ; McLrod, S. F. x, p. 168; Hiifteii, Tor/. Pal. p. 1324 (1920). 



Querquedula falcata, Hume, S. F. iv. p. 225 ; )V7. ibid, vii, p. 494 ; id. 

 ibid, viii, p. 115; id. Cat. No. 966 bis ; Hume d- Marsh. Game-B. ill, 

 p. 231 ; Bcid, S. F. x, p. 84. 



Eunetta falcata, Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 218 ; Blanford, Avifauna 

 B. I. iv, p. 438 ; Oate.'i, Game-B. ii, p. 202 ; Inglis, J. B. N. H. S. 

 xiii, p. 180 ; id. ibid. p. 378 ; Comber, ibid, xiv, p. 149 ; Stuart Baker, 

 ibid. XV, p. 141 ; Hopwood, ibid . xvi, p. 249 ; hujlis, ibid, xvii, 

 p. 1015; Stuart Baker, Indian Ducks, p. 143 (1908); Hopwood, 

 J. B. N. H. S. xvii, p. 433 (1908) ; Glancorb, ibid. p. 683 ; Kelly, ibid. 

 XX, p. 219 (1910) ; Hopwood, ibid, xxi, p. 1220 (1912) ; Wall, ibid. 

 xxii, p. 202 (1913) ; Hiimnis, ibid. p. 399 (1913) ; Bignell, ibid, xxiii, 

 p. 160 (1914) ; Hopivood, ibid. p. 365 (1914) ; Stevens, ibid. p. 735 

 (1915) ; Wait,; ibid, xxiv, p. 599 (1916) ; Higgins, ibid. p. 606 (191(0. 



