104 WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA 
The Clucking Teal has it bordered narrowly in front 
with cinnamon, and then half black and half green 
transversely. 
The Andaman Teal has the wing-bar velvety-black, 
with a bronze or bronze-green streak running through it 
longitudinally, and a big white patch in front. 
The Common Teal. 
Netttum crecca, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., 
Birds, Vol liV.) p2 442: 
VERNACULAR NAMES :—Chota Murghahi, Kerra, 
Lohya Kerra, Putan, Souchuruka, H.; Naroib, 
Tulsta-bigri, Beng. ; Baigilagaini, Nepal ; Kar- 
do, Sind. ; Killowat, Tamil; Sovlai-haki, Can. 
This Teal is the smallest of its genus, and with the 
exception of the Cotton Teal, our smallest Duck. It 
has for its size a large head and bill, the latter narrow 
and nearly parallel-sided ; otherwise it is a very deli- 
cately formed little creature. 
The male is pencilled-grey in general colour, being 
marked with fine black lnes on a white ground ; the 
head is chestnut, with a broad metallic-green stripe 
bordered with cream colour running back from the eye. 
The breast is buff with round black spots; the belly 
white; the scapulars and stern black and cream, and the 
wing-bar very brilliant metallic-green above, velvet- 
black below, with a buff and white anterior border, and 
a white edging behind. The bill is black, eyes brown, 
and feet grey. 
The female is mottled with dark brown and whitish, 
but has the wing-bar like that of the male, only not quite 
o bright, and with no buff ; by it she can easily be dis- 
tinguished from the very similar female Blue-winged 
Teal, as well as by her narrower bill not showing the 
