TADORNINA, 399 
glossy black ; upper tail-coverts chesnut; tai! brown with slightly 
paler edges ; lesser and median wing-coverts fine rich maroon- 
red; greater-coverts and all the quills dusky-black; beneath, 
the chin and throat albescent ; the neck whity-brown, passing 
into brown, yellowish on the lower neck, and gradually merging 
into the deep ferruginous or light chesnut of the whole of the 
lower surface ; vent and under tail-coverts albescent, 
The Whistling Teal is very common in Sind, fairly common in 
Central India and Rajputana, and not uncommon in Guzerat ; 
in all these places, I believe, it to be a permanent resident ; 
in the Deccan, where it is more or less rare, it only occurs as 
a seasonal visitant. The nest is usually placed on the lower 
limb of a largish tree, but occasionally old crow nests are utilized. 
The eggs, ten to fourteen in number, are of a broad oval shape, and 
are nearly pure white in color. 
They measure 1°86 inches in length by 1-48 in breadth. 
Dendrocygna fulva, Gm. 
953.—D. major, Jerd.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IT, p. 790; 
Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 487; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 288; Game Birds of India, 
Vol ETE -p., Liv. 
THE LARGER WHISTLING TEAL. 
Length, 19°5 to 20:1; expanse, 36 to 36°75; wing, 8:75 to 
9 2; tail, 3; tarsus, 2:5; bill from gape, 2-4; weight, 142 to 
i 332 [bs. 
Bill dusky-leaden, bluish at base; irides brown; legs and 
feet pale leaden or lavender-blue. 
Head and neck chesnut, darker on the top of the head, 
whence a dark line extends down the back of the neck; chin, 
throat, and foreneck pale ; in the centre of the neck there is a broad 
patch of small, whitish somewhat hackled feathers ; upper part of 
the back and scapulars deep brown ; the feathers edged with ches- 
nut; lower part of the back black; lesser wing-coverts dark maroon ; 
the other wing-coverts, wings, and tail, dusky black ; lower plumage 
chesnut ; under tail-coverts (and a few of the upper tail-coverts 
also) yellowish-white ; the feathers of the flanks much lengthened, 
chesnut on one side, and yellowish-white on the other. 
The Larger Whistling Teal isa rare seasonal visitant to the 
Deccan, and occurs also in Sind. I can find no record of its 
occurrence in any other portion of our limits. 
Genus, Casarca, Bonap. 
Bill moderate, slightly raised at the base, depressed anteriorly, 
of uniform width; nail large; lamine slender, very apparent ; 
wings moderately long, when closed reaching to the end of the 
tail, which is short and slightly rounded, of fourteen or sixteen 
feathers ; tarsus moderate, stout ; toes long; hind-toe lobed. 
