108 WATER FOWL OF INDIA AND ASIA. 
India by East-Asiatic waterfowl, of which we have had 
the Green-head Pochard (Nyrvoca beri) in numbers, the 
Dwari Goose (A nser erythropus), the Bronze-Cap (Eunetta 
jalcata) as above noted, and now this species, one of 
our very rarest visitants in the ordinary way. 
That these birds had been habitually visiting us and 
had been overlooked, I do not fora moment believe. It 
is far more reasonable to suppose that they comeat long 
intervals only or in very fluctuating numbers. A proof 
of this was furnished to me by Mr. W. Rutledge, who, 
in dealing in animals in Calcutta for forty years, had 
never had this Teal or the Bronze-Cap offered for sale by 
the natives, though he had imported specimens from 
China as fancy birds. 
The Clucking Teal’s chief peculiarity appears to be 
that to which it owes its name, its harsh and frequently 
repeated clucking call ; this is constantly being uttered 
by the males, and will very likely prove to be confined 
to thatisex. 
The Andaman Teal. 
Nettium albigulare, BLANFORD, Faun. Brit. Ind., 
Birdsy Vole sp. 444: 
VERNACULAR NAMES :—None known. 
This is the largest of the genus, but has proportionally 
ihe smallest wings ; its bill is also short, like that of the 
Clucking Teal. The sexes are alike. The colour is a 
mottled brown, very dark, almost chocolate in fact. 
The throat, fore-neck, and aring round the eye are white, 
as is a patch in front of the wing-bar, which is velvet- 
black with a longitudinal bronze-green streak in the 
middle, and a narrow lower border of white formed by 
the white edging of the first secondary. 
The white on the head shows a tendency to spread, 
and in one Indian Museum specimen, a fine male, 
