QUEROUEDULA. 693 



Hab. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N. W and Central 

 Vovinces, Rajputana, Kutch and throughout India and Burmah. 



Abundant wherever it occurs, frequenting tanks, rivers, ponds and jheejls, &c. 



1396. Querquedula circia (Linn.}, Jerd., B. Lid. iii. p. 807; 



Dresser, B, Eur. vi. p. 51 3, pi. ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 644 ; Scully ', Str. F. 

 iv. p. 2O I ; Hume and Harsh., Game Birds iii. p. 215, pi. ; Bingham, Str. F. 

 ix. p. 198 ; Murray, Vert.ZooL, Sind, p. 301 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm.ii. p. 286. 

 Anas circia, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 204 ; ISlyth, B. Burm., p. 166 ; Legge, 

 B. Ceylon, p. 1080. The GARGANEY TEAL. 





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Querquedula circia. The Garganey or Blue-winged Teal. 



Male. Forehead purplish brown, finely streaked with white ; crown of the 

 head, occiput, nape and a line half way down the back of the neck dark umber 

 or blackish brown, bounded on each side by a white superciliary streak, 

 which extends to the sides of the neck ; face, sides of the neck, cheeks, throat 

 and neck chestnut brown, the feathers with white mesial streaks ; chin black; 

 breast and upper abdomen yellowish brown, tinged in some specimens with 

 ferruginous, and with broad crescentic dark brown markings ; lower abdomen 

 white or yellowish white, with, in some specimens, transverse, dusky strias 

 behind ; flanks with transverse undulations of black and white ; axillaries 

 white with black bases ; back brownish black, the feathers edged with yellow- 

 ish brown ; primaries dark brown on their outer webs and tips, pale wood 

 brown on their inner webs, in some specimens narrowly edged with whitish ; 

 wing spot on outer web of secondaries dull green, slightly glossed and tipped 

 with white, the white tips forming the second bar across the wing ; greater 

 coverts ashy grey Or bluish ashy, broadly tipped with white ; lesser and median 

 coverts ashy grey, or bluish ashy ; scapulars long and lanceolate, black, with a 

 mesial white shaft, and narrowly edged greyish white or white ; tertiaries dusky 

 brown, edged with white on their outer webs ; rump and upper tail coverts 

 dark brown, with bars of yellowish white ; tail dark brown, the feathers edged 



