406 ANATINA. 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 294; Game Birds of India, 
Vol. III, p. 237. ; 
THE MARBLED TEAL. 
¢. Length, 183 to 19; expanse, 285 to 295; wing, 81 
to 85; tail, 36 to 4; tarsus, 144 to 1:52; bill at front, 1°77 to 
1‘85; weight, lis to ly Ibs. 
9. Length, 16°9 to 175; expanse, 27 to 28; wing, 7°9 to 8'1 ; 
tail, 2°8 to 3°7; tarsus, 1-4 to 1'5 ; bill at front, 16 to 1°75; weight, 
1 to lve lbs. 
Bill dusky plumbeous, darker on culmen ; irides dark brown ; 
legs and feet greenish-plumbeous. 
“The male has the forehead, crown, occiput, and nape brownish- 
white, with numerous narrow, close-set, wavy, irregular, dark 
brown bars, which become more speckly on the occiput, where 
also the ground color is a more rufescent-brown ; feathers imme- 
diately round the eye very dark brown; a broad irregular stripe 
over the eye, and a large patch on the side of the head behind 
the eyes moderately dark brown, shading into the very dark 
brown immediately surrounding the eyes; the whole sides of the 
head below the dark eye and ear-patch, the whole chin, throat 
and front of neck, slightly greyish or brownish-white, very nar- 
rowly, regularly and closely streaked with brown; the lower parts 
a slightly brownish-white ; the breast feathers with greyish-brown 
subterminal transverse bars, mostly more or less concealed by the 
pale tippings of the superincumbent feathers, and only clearly 
seen when the feathers are lifted ; the sides and flanks similar, 
but the subterminal bars much broader, and some of the flank 
feathers with several bars; the vent-feathers and under tail- 
coverts, generally, with aslightly more rufescent tinge, and with 
two or more narrow, widely separated, transverse brown bars; the 
tibial plumes browner, and with numerous narrow, closely set, 
but ill marked, transverse brown bars; the abdomen more or less 
obsoletely mottled with pale grey-brown, which, on lifting the 
feathers, is found to arise from more or less faint, irregular, trans- 
verse, subterminal, brownish bars. 
“The barrings above described are very much more marked in 
some specimens than in others, in some in fact they are almost 
entirely obsolete on the abdomen, and can hardly be traced. 
“The upper back greyish-brown, the feathers with a subtermi- 
nal richer brown bar; scapulars brown, each feather with a 
‘ yellowish-white terminal spot, and of a much richer brown, the 
larger ones especially, just above the spot; the tertiariés and 
secondary greater coverts are greyish-brown, the former obsoletely 
barred paler; the secondaries are pale grey; the primaries 
their greater-coverts, and the winglet pale ashy, the primaries 
with a silver-grey tinge on the outer webs towards the tips, 
where they are much darker, and where the shafts also are 
conspicuously darker; the middle-back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts the same grey-brown as the upper part of the back; the 
