ANATINA, 403 
THE MALLARD. 
3. Length, 22°5 to 245 ; expanse, 35 to 38; wing, 10:45 to 11:3; 
tail, 4-2 to 4°8 ; tarsus, 1°6 to 1°85; bill from gape, 25 to 2°75; 
weight, 23 to 3 lbs. 
£. Length, 20 to 21°75; expanse, 33 to 35; wing, 9:2 to 108; 
tail, 4-1 to 47; tarsus, 15 to 1°7; bill from gape, 2-47 to 2°63 ; 
weight, lis to 2i¢ lbs. 
Bill dingy greenish-yellow ; nail black ; irides brown ; legs and 
feet reddish-orange to vermilion-red. 
Male, head and upper half of neck deep emerald-green, ap- 
proaching to black on the cheeks and forehead; a white collar 
round the neck, hind-neck brown, with fine transverse grey lines ; 
mantle chesnut-brown, with pale margins to the feathers; rump 
and upper tail-coverts blackish-green, the sides of the rump 
greyish-white, with fine transverse undulating line of clove- 
brown ; scapulars greyish-white, with cross wavy brown marks, 
and some of the outer ones chesnut, with darker cross lines ; wing- 
coverts and primaries brown; speculum deep Prussian-blue, with 
purple and green reflections, bounded on each side by a double 
border, the inner one velvet-black, the outer white; tail greyish- 
brown, all the feathers bordered with white; the four central 
feathers curled upwards ; lower-neck and breast dark chesnut; 
abdomen and flanks greyish-white, with transverse undulating 
lines of brown ; under tail-coverts blackish-green. 
The female has the upper plumage brown, of different shades, 
the feathers edged with pale reddish-brown ; the head and neck 
creamy-white or yellowish with dusky streaks; speculum much 
as in the male; throat buff or whitish; breast and under-parts 
yellowish-brown, obscurely spotted and streaked with darker 
brown, the central tail-feathers not turned up. 
The Mallard is a common cold weather visitant to Sind; it is 
occasionally met with in Guzerat, but in Central India and the 
Deccan it is extremely rare, only occurring as a straggler. It is 
one of the very best ducks for the table. 
Anas peecilorhyncha, Forsé. 
959.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 799; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol: IV, p. 29; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 437; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 292; Game 
Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 165; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 137. ; 
THE GREY or SPOT-BILLED Duok. 
Length, 22 to 25:9; expanse, 32°5 to 38°5 ; wing, 9°2 to 11:2; 
tail, 49 to 58; tarsus, 17 to 1:93; bill from gape, 2:3 to 2°75; 
weight, 1i¢ to 3+ lbs. 
Bill black, red at base, yellow at tip; irides brown ; legs and 
feet coral to yermilion-red, in young birds inclining to orange. 
Top of the head and nape dark sepia-brown, with some pale 
