104. THE COMMON TEAL. 



Nettium crecca, (Linn^us). 



Outer web of the primaries blackish ; 



inner web drab, with a blackish tip. 

 Axillaries white, with a brown tip. 

 Wing under eight inches in length. 

 Shafts of primaries brown. 

 Greater upper wing-coverts tipped with 



white, the tips of the inner feathers 



sometimes tinged with buff. 

 Speculum formed by two lotigitudinal 



bands, the outer black, the inner 



metallic green. 



MALE : Crown and sides of head rich 

 chestnut. 



FEMALE: Head streaked with brown; 

 no oval buff spot at the side of the base of 

 the upper mandible. 



Vernacular Names : — Murghabi, 

 Chota-Tnurghabi, Kerra, Lohya Kerra, 

 Putari, Souchuruka, Hind. ; Kardo, 

 Sind. ; Baigilagairi, Nepal ; Narotb, 

 Tulsia-bigri, Bengal ; Killowaiy Mad- 

 ras ; Sof-lai-haki, Canarese. 



The Common Teal visits almost every 



part of the Empire in the cold season. 



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