CHAULELASMUS. 687 



Hab. Central and South Europe, and nearly throughout India ; found in 

 >ind, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, and Persia; also in the Punjab, N.-W. and 

 "entral Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Central India, Kutch, Guzerat, the Concans 

 ind Deccan; recorded also from Nepaul, Gilgit, and E. Turkestan; it is also 

 let with on the Continent of Europe, in Spain and Italy, also in Iceland and 

 Liberia, as well as in the northern parts of Africa and India generally. In 

 >ind it is numerous on the lakes, dhunds, &c., during winter, and especially 

 m the Munchur, arriving about the middle of November. 



Gadwall are considered excellent for the table, especially during the first 

 70 months of their arrival, when they usually feed on rice and young shoots 

 >f the sprouting wheat crops. Later on they affect the j heels and feed on 

 istaceans and fry of fish, and though then rather fishy in taste, the flesh is 

 not despised when better game is not to be had. The localities preferred by 

 the Gadwall after dusk are generally lakes, jheels and ponds covered with long 

 herbage, but during the day it frequents open water, as the broads of the Indus. 



1391. Chaulelasmus rufiventris, Sp. Nov. 



Male. General colour and markings of C. streperus, but the head is a 

 dark rufous brown, and has a short silky occipital crest ; sides of the head 

 glossed with a dull metallic green ; middle of abdomen everywhere to the 

 vent covered with transverse undulations continuous with those on the flanks 

 and sides, leaving no albescent space along the middle as in streperus ; thighs 

 with similar, but faint undulating lines ; vent and under tail coverts rich 

 rufous brown tinged with purplish. Bill as in C. streperus, but tinged 

 yellowish on the lower mandible ; irides reddish brown ; legs and feet dull 

 orange. 



Length of two Males. 18-7 and 19 inches respectively ; wing 10*6 and 

 10*7; tarsus 1-4 ; bill at gape 1-87. 



Hab. Nari Base (Beloochistan) and Sylhet. (Pennock.) 



These specimens were sent to me by Mr. Francis Pennock in January 1886 

 for identification. They were compared with the skins of 13 males, but in 

 none of them is there a trace or even a tinge of rufous on the vent, which is 

 the chief characteristic of this species, which I provisionally name as above. 

 The female is not known. 



1392. Chaulelasmus angustirostris (Menetries), Bp.F. Ital. 



t. 47, i., 2 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 373 ; Sir. F. i. p. 262 ; iii. p. 273 vii. pp. 493, 

 523 ; Murray, PIdbk., Zool. } fyc., Sind, p. 235 ; Hume, Game B. Ind. p. 237; 

 Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p 294. The MARBLED TEAL. 



"The male has the forehead, crown, occiput, and nape brownish white, with 

 numerous narrow, close-set, wavy, irregular, dark brown bars, which become 

 more speckly on the occiput, where also the ground colour is a more rufescent 

 brown ; feathers immediately round the eye very dark brown ; a broad irre- 



