26 TEAL. 
thick lining of down and feathers: the whole is of rather 
large size. 
The eggs are from eight, ten, or eleven, to fifteen in 
number. They have been found under a furze bush without 
any nest. They are white, with a tinge of buff or cream- 
colour. 
Male; weight, about eleven ounces or a little over, on to 
twelve ounces; length one foot two inches and a half, to one 
foot three inches. The bill is dark lead-colour—nearly black, 
the tip black. The feathers about the base of the under 
mandible are thickly speckled with dull green. These green 
spots extend round the bill, getting darker underneath, and 
widening out at the chin, where they form a spot of con- 
siderable size, nearly black. Round the edge of this black 
spot a very narrow band of light buff extends along the 
chesnut on the head, over the eye, and loses itself in the 
chesnut at the back of the neck. Another stripe of buff 
branches off from the former in front of the eye, and extends 
under it, where it becomes nearly white, and ends at the 
ear coverts. Iris, pale hazel brown; the eyelid white, forming 
a spot below the lower line and the eye; between these two 
light bands round the eye, and extending a.short way down 
the neck, rich light blue, glossed with deep green, gradually 
narrowing until it joins the chesnut at the back of the neck, 
at which point is a pitch of black, slightly burnished with 
purple; underneath the lower pale line, extending to the chin 
and a short way down the neck, rich chesnut. Head on the 
forehead, crown, and sides, and a short way down the back 
and sides of the neck, very rich chesnut brown; these feathers 
are slightly elongated, almost concealing the black patch. 
Chin, black; throat and neck in front, chesnut; breast on 
the upper part, yellowish white, spotted with black, and with 
a tinge of purple; below dull dusky white; on the sides barred 
or waved with narrow zigzag black and white lines; back on 
the upper part, pale grey, minutely zigzaged with darker 
waved lines; on the lower part the dark brown colour is so 
thick as to appear nearly black. 
The wings expand to the width of two feet eleven inches; 
the first and second quills are nearly equal; greater wing 
coverts, greyish brown, deeply tipped with white, forming a 
bar; those next to the body are tipped with yellowish rufous; 
underneath the quills are hght blackish or grey; the shafts 
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