410 ANATIN A. 
with white ; wing-coverts brown, tinged with grey ; the speculum, 
formed by the tips of the secondary-coverts, deep green in the 
middle, velvet-black at the sides, bordered above by a broad 
yellowish-white bar; chin black; lower part of the neck in 
front and breast reddish or creamy-white, with round black 
spots; abdomen white; lower  tail-coverts blackish-brown, 
bordered at the sides with yellowish-white. 
The female has the head, neck, and all the upper parts, dusky- 
brown, the feathers more or less broadly edged with paie reddish- 
brown ; the throat, cheeks, and a band behind the eyes, yellowish- 
white, spotted with black ; the speculum as in the male, and the 
under parts yellowish-white. 
The Common Teal is most abundant throughout the entire 
region ; it is one of the earliest ducks to arrive. It is excellent 
eating. 
Querquedula circia, Lin. 
965.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 807; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 30; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 438; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 301; 
Game Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 215; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 137. 
THE BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 
&. Length, 15:9 to 16°25; expanse, 25:0 to 27:25; wing, 74 
to 8'1; tail, 3°3 to 38; tarsus, 1:0 to 13; bill from gape, 1°75 to 
1:92 ; weight, +2 to 1 Ib. 
?. Length, 14°8 to 15:5; expanse, 23:0 to 25:5; wing, 70 to 
7-5; tail from vent, 2:9 to 3°5; tarsus, 1°0 to 1°15; bill from gape, 
1°7 to 1°85 ; weight, 1 to +2 lbs. 
Bill blackish-brown ; irides hazel ; legs and feet dusky. 
Male, crown, occiput, and a line down the back of the 
neck, umber-brown; over each eye a band of pure white, 
prolonged down the sides of the neck; cheeks and upper part 
of the neck chesnut-brown, with fine longitudinal streaks of 
white; back brown, glossed with green, the feathers edged 
with ashy and yellowish-brown ; scapulars long and acuminate, 
black, with a broad central white streak; wing-coverts bluish- 
ash; speculum greyish-green, bordered above and_ below by 
a white bar; tail dusky-grey, the feathers edged lighter ; upper 
tail-coverts yellowish-white, spotted with black; chin black; 
lower part of the neck and breast pale fulvous, with crescent- 
shaped black bars; abdomen white ; the flanks with transverse 
wavy lines of black ; vent and under tail-coverts yellowish-white, 
spotted with black. 
The female has the head, neck, and upper parts, dusky-brown, 
the feathers with whitish edges; the eye-streak faint; wing- 
coverts dark ashy-grey ; speculum dull, the greenish tinge almost 
wanting; chin and throat white; the lower part of the breast 
