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glossy green; secondaries glossy green, broadly tipped with white; 
primaries dark brown on the bas@@halves, then white with the tip black; 
under wing-coverts greenish black; upper tail-coverts white freckled with 
brown; under tail-coverts dark brown mottled with white; sides of the 
body vermiculated with brown. ‘Bill black; iris bright red; legs, toes, 
and webs black, sides of tarsus and toes dusky yellow; claws horny brown.’ 
(Oates.) Length, 330; wing, 165; tail, 76; culmen, 23; tarsus, 25. 
“Female.—Forehead and a supercilium dirty white; crown and nape 
dark brown; lores and line through eyes blackish; remainder of head, 
the whole neck, and upper breast dull white, mottled with brown, the 
marks on breast and hind neck becoming well-defined wavy lines; lower 
plumage dull white, streaked and distinctly barred with brown; whole 
upper surface, wings, and tail brown; secondaries tipped with white and 
inner primaries also more narrowly tipped with white; upper tail-coverts 
white, freckled with brown; under wing-coverts brown, each feather 
margined with white. ‘Bill brown above, yellowish below; iris brown; 
legs and toes greenish yellow.’ (Oates.) Size a trifle less than the male. 
“Male in winter.—Similar to the female, but always retains the con- 
spicuous white patch on the primaries. 
“Young.—‘Similar to the female till the first spring.’ (Oates.) 
“Young in down.—Upper parts, flanks, and under tail-coverts blackish 
brown; a broad superciliary stripe, cheeks, throat, front neck, and breast 
white; a broad line through the eyes; two broad white spots on each 
side of back, one near the base of wings, and the other, much longer, on 
the sides of the rump; feathers of tail blackish, very long, and stiff.” 
(Salvadort. ) 
A male collected near Anao, Tarlac Province, Luzon, March 14, 1904, 
measured, 290 in length; wing, 165; tail, 68; culmen from frontal 
feathers, 21; tarsus, 27; middle toe with claw, 42. A female from the 
same locality and of the same date measured: Length, 290; wing, 165; 
tail, 66; culmen from frontal feathers, 22; tarsus, 23; middle toe with 
claw, 39. | 
“The eggs of the Indian dwarf goose, or ‘cotton teal, are generally 
truly ellipical in form, occasionally compressed at the smaller end, very 
smooth and glossy, and cream-color. They measure from 39 to 44 in 
length and from 30 to 35 in breadth.” (Oates.) 
This little bird is the only species of goose so far recorded from the 
Islands; it occurs on the Laguna de Bay and a few specimens were 
secured in Tarlac Province, Luzon. Oates lists three eggs of this species 
as having been collected in Siquijor by the Steere Expedition but Steere 
does not mention the species. A large goose has been reported as oc- 
curring in the northern part of Luzon but no specimen has been taken. 
