398 TADORNINA. 
black, glossed green externally, purplish withm; face, back of 
head, and whole neck and under parts pure white, with a black 
collar round the lower part of the neck; flanks white, with 
fine zig-zag brown lines; vent and under tail-coverts mottled, 
dusky and white. 
The female is duller and more brown, above faintly glossed ; 
the primaries want the white patch;the sides of the rump 
and upper tail-coverts are pale brown; the top of the head is 
dusky, and there is a dark stripe through the eyes ; the neck 
is mottled with dusky lines, the under parts are dirty white, 
the flanks pale brown, and under tail-coverts whitish. 
This miniature Goose is not uncommon in suitable localities 
(weed-grown tanks and jheels) in the Deccan; it is far more 
common in Central India and parts of Rajputana, but I cannot 
find any record of its occurrence in Guzerat, neither does it occur 
in Sind. 
It is a permanent resident, breeding in July and August. 
The eggs, ten or twelve in number, are generally placed 
in holes in trees; they are oval in shape, of a delicate ivory- 
white color, and measure 1°7 inches in length by about 1:29 in 
breadth. 
Sus-ramity, Tadornine. 
Bill more or less raised at the base, and flattened towards the 
tip; plumage more or less rufous. 
Genus, Dendrocygna, Sws. 
Bill rather large, lengthened, of uniform width, slightly ele- 
vated at the base ; wings short, broad, rounded ; second, third, 
and fourth primaries sub-equal and longest ; secondaries long ; 
tarsus long and stout ; feet large ; hind-toe rather long. 
Dendrocygna javanica, Horsf. 
952.—D. awsuree, Sykes.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p- 789; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 27; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 436; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 287 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. 
III, p. 110; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India, Ibis, 1885, 
p. 187. 
THE WHISTLING TEAL. 
Length, 16 to 17-45; expanse, 27:25 to 303; wing, 7 to 
8:04; tail, 2°3 to 3:02; tarsus, 1°6 to 1:92; bill from gape, 1°7 to 
2:06 ; weight, 1 to 14 lbs. 
Bill blackish ; irides brown; orbits bright-yellow; legs and 
feet dark plumbeous. 
Head and occiput dull wood-brown ; face, ears, and neck, pale 
whity-brown, becoming darker on the back of the neck and 
upper back, and faintly edged with pale rusty; back and 
scapulars dusky-black, broadly edged with rusty-brown ; rump 
