102 WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 
ing point is that the fringing of the bill just shows 
below the uppet chap, the blue wing being confined to 
the male. 
The male’s colouration is very complicated, but he can 
always be recognized by his pinky-brown head closely 
speckled with white, with black crown and large white 
eyebrow : the breast, rump and stern are mottled brown 
and black ; the wing “ shoulders’ are lavender grey, 
and the wing-bar dull light metallic green with a broad 
white border fore and aft ; the belly is white and the 
flanks white, coarsely pencilled with black ; the long 
pointed scapulars are streaked with French grey, black 
and white. The eyes are brown, and the bill and feet 
purplish grey. Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, however, has 
met with one specimen with orange feet. 
The female is mottled with dark brown and whitish, 
and has no wing-bar, or a very faint indication of one. 
The eyes, bill and feet resemble those of the male. 
The male in undress is exactly like the female except 
for the wings. He is later than most other Ducks in 
acquiring the full dress, not being in perfect plumage 
till the end of winter. The long scapulars are the last 
part of the male plumage to develop. Young males 
resemble him. The male is about sixteen inches long, 
with a wing about seven and-a-half, shank rather over 
one, and bill about one-and-three-quarters. Females 
are smaller. 
The Garganey appears to be peculiarly lable to 
albinism. I have observed no less than six of a peculiar 
pallid variety, showing more or less of the usual mark- 
ings in a pale washed-out shade. A pair of these are 
shown in the Bird Gallery of the Indian Museum, the 
male of which lived for some years in the Calcutta Zoo ; 
and I exhibited another pair, obtained in the bazaar, 
to the Asiatic Society. Since then a skin of an almost 
pure white specimen was submitted to me for identifi- 
cation, the bill and feet of which had evidently been dark 
