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and primaries hair-brown ; lesser wing-coverts smoke-grey ; the 
speculum blackish-green, glossed with purple, bordered above by 
a pale ferruginous bar, and below by a white one; tertiaries long 
and acuminate, velvet-black, with a broadish edging of greyish 
er yellowish-white ; breast and abdomen white, the sides of 
both with transverse black and whitish lines, and the latter 
minutely speckled with grey towards the vent ; under _tail-coverts 
black. 
The female has the head and neck reddish-brown, speckled 
and streaked withdusky; the upper plumage umber-brown, the 
feathers edged with reddish-white ; wing-coverts brown, edged 
white ; lower parts pale fulvous, obscurely spotted with brown; 
speculum dull without the green gloss; tail, with the two medial 
feathers, scarcely longer than the others. ; 
The Pintail is common in Sind during the cold season ; 
fairly common in Guzerat, and Central India; but is somewhat 
less common in the Deccan. The Pintail is a very excellent 
bird for the table and is much sought after in consequence. 
Genus, Mareca, Stephens. 
Bill short, raised at the base, narrowing towards the tip; 
nail moderate ; lamellze distant, projecting in the middle of the 
bill ; tail short, cuneate, of fourteen feathers; hind-toe small 
with a narrow web. 
Mareca penelope, Lin. 
963.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 804; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 30; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 438; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 
p. 299; Game Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 197; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 137. 
THE WIGEON. 
6. Length, 19 to 19°5; expanse, 32°75 to 345; wing, 10 to 
106 ; tail, 4 to 46; tarsus, 14 to 16; bill from gape, 1°7 to 
182; weight, 1:3; to 142 Ibs. : 
9. Length, 17°8 to 19:25; expanse, 31°5 to 34; wing, 93 to 
10:2; tail, 3°5 to 50; tarsus, 14 to 16; bill from gape, 1°68 to 
1:8; weight, 1,3 to 142 Ibs. 
Bill pale delicate greyish-lavender or leaden, rarely a slaty-blue, 
with the nostrils, tip of upper, and all but the basal portion of 
the rami of the lower mandible, black, and often with a narrow 
black lime along the margins of the upper mandible also. 
Sometimes only the tip of the lower mandible is black, the rest 
of the same blue as the upper one, but dingier; irides vary from 
hazel to deep brown; the legs and feet vary from pale drab- 
brown with a faint olive tinge, through dusky-leaden to light 
plumbeous ; in all cases the webs are dusky, occasionally almost 
black, and very often with a dusky shade over the joints. 
