ANATIN 2. 409 
Male, forehead and crown creamy-yellow; rest of the head 
and upper part of the neck chesnut-red ; the cheeks speckled 
with black ; back minutely barred with transverse wavy lines of 
black and white; scapulars black, edged with white; tail 
blackish-grey ; wing-coverts pure white ; the greater-coverts with 
velvet-black tips, some of the lesser ones, near the body, pale 
greyish ; quills cinereous-brown ; speculum of three bars, the middle 
one glossy green, the upper and under ones black; chin and 
throat black ; lower part of the neck and breast vinaceous-red ; 
abdomen white ; the flanks with black and white wavy lines; 
under tail-coverts black, glossed green. 
The female has the head and neck fulvous-brown, speckled 
with dusky; the back and scapulars dusky brown with reddish 
edges ; wing-coverts brown, edged with whitish ; the speculum 
without the dark green gloss; the breast and belly much as in 
the male ; the flanks rufous-brown with ashy tips; bill and legs 
more dusky than in the male. 
During the cold season, the Wigeon is more or less common 
throughout the district ; on its first arrival and for some weeks 
after it is good eating, but afterwards acquires a muddy flavor, 
Genus, Querquedula, Stephens. 
Bill of moderate length and of uniform width, slightly raised 
at the base; the Jamelle not apparent; the nail small; and the 
tip obtuse ; wings long and pointed; tail wedge shaped, of 14 
or 16 feathers. 
Querquedula crecca, Zinn. 
964.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 806 ; Butler, Guzerat : 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 30; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 438; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 
p- 300; Game Birds of India, Vol. III, p- 205; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 137. 
THE Common TEAL. 
3. Length, 14°5 to 15°85; expanse, 23:0 to 25-25 ; wing, 7-2 to 
8:0 ; tail, 3:0 to 36; tarsus, 1-1 to 13; bill from gape, 1°65 to 
18; weight, 103 to 15 ozs. 
¢. Length, 135 to 149; expanse, 22°5 to 25-0; wing, 6°5 to 
74; tail, 29 to 35; tarsus, 1:0 to 1-2; bill from gape, 1°5 to 
A re weight, 7is to 12 ozs. 
Bill blackish ; irides hazel-brown ; legs and feet greyish-brown. 
Male, crown of head, cheeks, front and sides of the neck, 
ferruginous-brown ; on the sides of the head, enclosing the eye, a 
large patch of deep glossy green, passing off backwards to the 
nape in the form of a black band ; back and scapulars beautifully 
marked with transverse undulating lines of black and white, 
some of the longer scapulars creamy-yellow with a portion of 
their outer webs velvet-black ; tail hair-brown, the feathers edged 
