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the lattei' is glossy-green auteriorly, with a subapical velvety-black baud, 

 and bordered by a white band at the tip of the secondaries : the longer 

 tertiaries marked with velvety-black on the outer web : quills pale-brown ; 

 under wing-coverts brown-grey, the greater ones pale-grey, the centre ones 

 and the axillaries whitish, minutely spotted with brown-grey ; bill dark - 

 bluish-brown; feet light greyish-blue, darker on the web : irides chestnut- 

 brown." 



Measurements. — "Total length IS inches, wing So, tail 4:''2, culmen I'.j, 

 tarsus 1." (Salvadoii.) 



"Length 15'8 inches, wing S'l.j, tail 3''J, tarsus 1'3, bill at front I'.j, 

 from gape 1'92." {Hiiiiie.) 



"The tarsus ... . in a tine male from China is I'i inches." iHione.) 



Again, Temminck and Schlegel give the dimensions of the tarsus as 

 1'28 inches. 



Of the four specimens in tlie Indian Museum, Calcutta, the measure- 

 ments of the tarsus of the males are 1'2 to 1'3 inches ; the measurements 

 were kindly supplied to me liy Mr. F. Finn. 



Female. — " Upper parts, wings, and tail brown, with paler edges to the 

 feathers, crown darkest ; speculum as in the male, but the rufous and bronze- 

 green bands duller ; a buff spot on each side of the head in front of the 

 lores, another under each e> e ; side of the head and neck buff or pale rufous 

 speckled with brown ; lower parts white, except lower fore-neck and upper 

 breast, which are light rufous-brown with dark spots. 



Measurements.—" Length l.j'O inches, culmen 145, wing 78. tail. 3'5, 

 tarsus 0'9." (Dresser.) 



"The only female in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a tarsus 

 measuring 1'3 inches." [Hione.) 



Post-nuptial plumage. — " The male assumes, after breeding, a plumage 

 very similar to that of the female, from which he is only to be distinguished 

 by the darker brownish-red tint of the upper breast, and the comparatively 

 uniform colour of the upper back, the feathers of which, in the female, 

 are darker and very conspicuously bordered with reddish-buff." (Hiniic.) 



Young. — " The young in down are easily recognized by the spot at the 

 root of the bill and the stripe by the eye, which agree exactly with those 

 of the female, but are yellowish instead of white." (Middeudorff.) 



Distribution. — Eoughly speaking, the habitat of the Clucking Teal 

 may be said to be the eastern portion of Asia, south of the 70th 

 degree north latitude, and east of longitude 80 degrees. To the 

 south its boundary may be taken as the '20th degree latitude. It is 

 extremely common in many parts of Southern China, Central East 

 China, Formosa, and the south of Japan in the winter, but it has 

 at no time been reported from Yesso or elsewhere to the north of 



