QUERQUEDULA. 695 



colour ; a black streak from below the eye meeting a black patch on the throat ', 

 nape and hind neck glossy green, ending in a black stripe down the back of 

 the neck, separated from the fawn colour of the sides of the neck by a narrow 

 white line ; upper plumage finely marbled grey, edged with rufous on the 

 back; upper wing coverts hair brown, the median coverts the same, with an 

 edging of rufous, forming the anterior margin of the speculum, which is glossy 

 green, ending in velvet black and bordered posteriorly with silvery white ; 

 primaries brown ; scapulars lengthened, deep black in the centre, white on 

 their upper side, and rufous externally ; upper tail coverts brown, white on 

 either side ; tail of 16 feathers, dark brown ; beneath the throat black ; neck 

 and breast vinaceous purple, paling below with black spots ; abdomen white ; 

 flanks mottled grey ; under tail coverts black ; bill dusky ; legs dusky. 



^Length. 15-5 inches; wing 8-5 ; tail 3 ; bill at front 1-5." (Jerd. y B. 

 fnd.) 



The female (of which the Kurrachee Museum has a specimen) wants the 

 rich markings on the head and face, which are mottled grey ; there is a dis- 

 tinct white superciliary streak and a brown streak behind the eye, also a patch 

 of white above the angle of the upper mandible ; chin and throat white ; 

 cheeks and sides of the neck white, the feathers with mesial linear streaks ; 

 breast rufescent, spotted with dark brown ; belly white; lower abdomen and 

 under tail coverts white, with linear brown spots ; back dark brown, the fea- 

 thers edged with rufous brown ; flanks dusky rufescent brown, some of the 

 feathers with whitish edgings ;bill 1-62 x 0-62 at its widest part ; tarsus I 6. 



Hal. Sind, N.-W. Provinces at Delhi (Hume), Oudh and Bengal. 



According to Mr. Hume, this is a rare straggler within the limits of India. 

 Blyth obtained a single specimen (a male) in the Calcutta Bazaar in 1844. 

 Mr. James, C.S., who was for some time in Sind, had a water-colour 

 drawing of the head of a Teal, which Mr. Hume regards as the male of this 

 species, and, besides a female in the Kurrachee Museum, a male was obtained 

 by Mr. Chill at Delhi in 1879. 



1398. Querquedula falcata, Georgi. Act. stocki., 1779, t. i ; 



Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 494 ; id., Game Birds iii. p. 231. Anas javana, Bodd., 

 PL Enl. p. 930. The BRONZE CAPPED TEAL. 



A frontal spot ending in a point on the culmen, about 0*4 long and 0*3 

 wide, pure white. The lores, forehead, crown and lower portion of cheeks 

 a rich ruddy purple or chocolate bronze ; the rest of the cheeks, sides of the 

 head, and occiput emerald green in most lights, in a few ruddy, or even rosy 

 bronze ; the feathers of the hinder crown, occiput and nape are lengthened 

 so as to form a considerable mane-like crest ; the chin and entire throat 

 snow white, then a black ring all round the neck, with dark green or greenish 



