368 THE GAME BIEDS AND WILD FOWL 



are the same creamy-white colour, and measure on an average 1'8 inch in length 

 by 1-3 inch in breadth. The down is undescribed, but is probably precisely 

 similar to that of the Common Teal, seeing that the females of the two species 

 are entirely alike in colour. 



Diagnostic characters Nettion, with the head partly metallic green, 

 with the top of the head chestnut like the cheeks, and with a broad crescentic 

 band of white on each side of the breast, and with no white on the scapulars 

 (male) ; similar in every external character to the female of the Common Teal 

 (female). Length, 14 to 15 inches. 



