GARGANEY. 



belly white ; sides and flanks varied with transverse black 

 lines bounded by two broad bands; under tail-coverts 

 mottled black and white ; legs, toes, and their membranes 

 greyish-brown. 



The whole length is sixteen inches. From the carpal 

 joint to the end of the wing seven inches and three- 

 quarters; the first quill-feather the longest. 



Females are smaller than males, and have the whole of 

 the head brown, with darker spots and lines ; over the 

 eye an indication of a light band of pale brown ; back, 

 scapulars, and tertials dark brown, with ferruginous edges 

 and white tips ; wing-coverts brown ; speculum dull green, 

 between two bars of white ; chin white ; breast varied with 

 two shades of brown, on a surface of greyish -white ; sides 

 and flanks pale brown, varied with darker brown. 



Young males, as usual, resemble females in their first 

 plumage, attaining their sexual distinctions after their first 

 moult. 



The windpipe of the Garganey is about seven inches in 

 length ; the form of the bony enlargement nearly oval, and 

 placed so as to appear like a continuation of the tracheal 

 tube ; the enlargement is in the front, and the bronchial 

 tubes come off from the flattened inner surface which lies 

 upon the oesophagus. The voice, as noticed by Mr. Selby, 

 is said to be a low hoarse croak. 



