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the abdomen ; under tail-coverts buff, the centre ones black ; 

 beak and legs black ; irides brown. 



Entire length 15'5 inches; culmcn 1*4 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7*3 ; tarsus I'l. 



Fig. Sharps and Dresser, B. of Eur. part i. 



307. QuERQUEDULA ciRCiA (Linn.). Garganey Teal. 



The Garganey Teal is moderately abundant throughout 

 Egypt and Nubia, and is a resident in the country. We 

 met with a considerable number at El Kab towards the 

 end of April ; but it appears to be most plentiful in the 

 Delta, for I have seen it frequently in the market at Alex- 

 andria. 



Top of the head dark brown, margined by a white streak 

 on each side, which commences over the eyes and joins on the 

 nape ; chin black ; remainder of the head and neck rufous 

 brown, finely spotted with white on the centre of each 

 feather ; front of the chest pale brown, with semicircular 

 black bars on each feather ; back and tail brown, often tinted 

 with grey, and with pale edgings to the feathers ; quills 

 brown, secondaries tipped with white, and with their outer 

 webs brilliant metallic green; greater wing-coverts broadly 

 tipped with white ; remainder of the wing-coverts and outer 

 web of the scapulars grey, the rest of the scapulars black, 

 with a clear white streak down their centres ; abdomen 

 nearly white, the flanks finely barred witli black ; legs and 

 beak nearly black ; irides brown. 



Entire length 15 inches; culraen I'G; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7'5 ; tarsus 1. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part v. 



