210 INDIAN DUCKS 



(33) NETTION ALBIGULARE. 



THE ANDAMAN TEAL. 



Mareca punctata, Ball, s. F. i, j). 88. 



Mareca albig'ularis, Hnmc, S. F. i, p. 303. 



Mareca gibberifrons, Hume, Nrsta and Eijos, p. 644 ; id. Cat. No. OGC). 



ter. ; Hume d' Marfsli. Gami'-B. iii, p. 243; Hume, Nests and Egns 



(Gates' ed.), iii, p. 290. 

 Nettion albigulare, Sulniilorl, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 257 : Stuart Baker, 



J. B. N. H. .S'., xii, p. 257 (1899), id. Indian Ducks, p. 175 (1908). 

 Nettium albigulare, Blaiiford, .\vifanna B. L iv, p. 444; Builis, 



J. B. K. H. S. XV, p. 525: l]'ilsnn, itiid.: (hmafiton. il>id. xvii, 



p. 491 : Oatcfi. Game-B. ii. p. 15S. 



Description. Adult Male. — " Upper pint of tlie head l)ro\vii : this 

 colour covers also the upper parts of the cheeks and gradually changes 

 into the white of the lower part of the cheeks and throat : the hrown of the 

 cheeks with obsolete dusky streaks ; round the eyes there is a ring of white 

 feathers, l^roader below ; in some specimens on the lores or at the liase of 

 the l)ill there are some white feathers ; upper parts lirown ; the edges of the 

 feathers of the back and scapulars pale-brown ; rump uniform ; the feathers 

 of the breast and abdomen pale-brown in the centre, and broadly margined 

 with brownish fawn-colour, producing a mottled appearance ; under tail- 

 coverts brown, almost uniform ; upper wing-coverts dark-brown, greater or 

 last row of wing-coverts white, forming a l)and. diminishing in breadth and 

 tinged with l)rown inwardly ; speculum velvety-black, with a longitudinal 

 copiiery-green band in the middle, from the seventh to the ninth secondary, 

 and hounded at the ti)) by a buff band ; the first secondary broadly white on 

 the outer web ; tertials broadly velvcty-hlack on the outer web ; primaries 

 l)rown, with an olive lustre ; under wing-coverts brown, the median ones 

 tipiied with white ; axillaries white ; tail brown." (Sal radon.) 



Colours of soft parts. — " Legs and feet greenish-blue to plumbeous : 

 webs usually darker ; claws horny ; hill greenish-blue, plumbeous or 

 plumbeous-blue, nail black ; in some, the lower mandible tinged with, in 

 one the terminal two-thirds of this, pink ; irides reddish-brown to deep 

 brownish -red." 



Measurements. — "Length 16 to 18 inches, expanse 24'5 to 27, tail from 

 vent 4 to 4'2, wing 7'5 to 8, tarsus 1'3 to 1"4, bill at front 1'4 to 1'5, from 

 gape 1'7 to 1'8, wings when closed reach from 2 to 2'2 from end of tail. 

 Weight 1 lb." [Hume.) 



