WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 65 
the bill presents no remarkable point. These birds, 
as above stated, walk well, though they do not come 
ashore much. Their flight is easier than that of most 
Ducks, but not swift or powerful ; they perch ireely, and 
dive for food like Pochards, but with more of a spring. 
They are omnivorous feeders, fair eating themselves, 
and build usually in trees. The sexes are alike in plum- 
age, and the young differ very little from them. The 
two species, though much alike, are easily to be distin- 
guished, as the descriptions will show, so that a key is 
unnecessary in this case. 
The Small Whistler. 
Dendrocycga javanica, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. 
Ind... Birds; Vol. lV, p. 430. 
VERNACULAR NaMEs :—Sullt, Stlhahi, Chihee, H. 
Saval, Shareil, Harrali-hans, Beng. ; Hansrali 
Uriya ; Ade, Adla, Mahrathi ; Horali, Assam : 
Tingi, Manipur; Yerra Chilluwa, Tel.: Yer- 
rundt, Mal. ; Chemba Tara, Tam. (Ceylon) ; 
Saaru, Tatta Saaru, Cing. ; Si-sa-l1, Burmese. 
This is, in spite of its somewhat awkward proportions, 
a neat-looking little Duck, with the head, neck, breast 
and flanks dun ; crown of head brown, belly chestnut, 
and upper surface slate with chestnut bars. There is a 
maroon patch at the root of the tail above, anc the wings are 
maroon and greyish black above. 
Young birds are altogether dun below, with none of 
the chestnut colour. 
The bill is dark-grey and black, evellds bright yellow, 
eyes dark and feet dark-grey. 
The length is about a foot and-a-hali, the wing 
between sevenandeight inches, and the bill and shank 
nearly two. 
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