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and belly white, spotted with brown on the flanks and lower 
abdomen. 
The Garganey or Blue-winged Teal, although very common 
throughout the district, scarcely occurs in such immense numbers 
as the Common Teal. It is good eating, equal if not superior to 
Q. crecca. 
Querquedula formosa, Geor. 
966.—Q. glocitans, Pall—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 808 ; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 302; Game Birds of 
India, Vol. III, p. 225. 
THE CLUCKING TEAL. 
3. Length, 15°38; wing, 815; tail, 3:9; tarsus, 1:3; bill at 
front, 1:5 ; bill from gape, 1:92; weight, 1 lb. 
Bill dusky ; irides chesnut-brown ; legs dusky. 
Male: forehead, top of the head, and occiput, rich purple- 
brown, banded by a narrow white line from the eye; face, cheeks, 
and sides of cheeks fawn color; a black streak from below the 
eye, meeting a black patch on the throat ; nape and hind-neck 
glossy green, ending ina black stripe down the back of the 
neck, separated from the fawn color of the side of the neck by a 
narrow white line; upper plumage finely marbled-grey, edged 
with rufous on the back; upper wing-coverts hair-brown ; the 
median-coverts the same, with an edging of rufous forming the 
anterior margin of the speculum, which is glossy-green, ending 
in velvet-black, and bordered posteriorly by silvery-white ; pri- 
maries brown ; scapulars lengthened, deep black in the centre, 
white on their upper side, and rufous externally ; upper tail- 
coverts brown, white on either side; tail of 16 feathers dark 
brown ; beneath the throat black; the neck and breast vinous- 
purple, with a few black spots, paling below ; abdomen white; 
flanks mottled-grey ; under tail-coverts black. 
The female wants the rich markings on the head and _ face, 
which are mottled grey and brown; the scapulars are not length- 
ened; the upper plumage is dusky, with rufous edgings ; the chin 
and throat white; the breast rufous, largely spotted with dark 
brown, as are the flanks ; the tail-coverts white, with brown spots. 
The Clucking Teal is a very rare straggler within our limits, 
but a specimen has been recorded from the Muncher Lake in 
Sind. 
Sus-Famity, Fuliguline. 
Hind-toe short, bordered by a more or less wide web; wings 
shorter than in the last sub-family ; tarsus short, more com- 
pressed, set further backwards ; feet large, the web reaching to 
the very end of the toes, and wide ; tail generally short, rounded, 
or somewhat wedged. 
Genus, Fuligula, Steph. 
Bill nearly as long as the head, moderately wide; tip 
