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and webs black, the sides of the tarsus and toes dusky yellow ; claws horny 

 brown. In the winter the upper mandible is brownish and the lower 

 yellowish. 



In the female the bill is brown above, yellowish below ; the iris is brown, 

 and the legs and toes greenish yellow. 



Length 13 inches, tail 3, wing 6*5, tarsus 1, bill from gape 1*1. The 

 female is a trifle smaller. 



The Cotton Teal Goose is very common and generally distributed over 

 the Province, except, perhaps, in Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison did not 

 meet with it south of Tavoy. 



It occurs over a considerable portion of India and Ceylon, Southern 

 China, Cochin China, the Malay peninsula, and is even said to occur in 

 Java and the Philippine Islands . It is pretty certain also to be found in 

 the Indo-Burmese countries. 



This little Goose is the best-known of all the Burmese game birds, being 

 found, whether singly or in flocks, in all swamps, marshes, inundated 

 paddy-fields, ponds and even roadside ditches. It is very tame, except 

 when associating with Ducks, at which times it partakes of their shy 

 nature. It dives well ; and wounded birds generally manage to escape by 

 going under and rising again in dense herbage. Its note is very peculiar, 

 and uttered only when flying. It breeds in the holes of trees ; and I 

 found a nest with ten eggs in September, near Kyeikpadein, in a mango 

 tree, about thirty feet from the ground . 



Subfamily ANATIN^E. 



Genus DENDROCYGNA, Swains. 



636. DENDROCYGNA JAVANICA. 



THE LESSER WHISTLING TEAL. 



Anas javanica, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 199. Mareca awsuree, Sykes, 

 P. Z. & 1832, p. 168. Dendrocygna awsuree, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 789. Den- 

 drocygna arcuata (Cm?.), apud Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 639; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born, p. 362 ; Anders. Ibis, 1874, p. 222 ; Bl. B. Burin, p. 165 ; Wardlatc Ramsay, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 472; Oates, S. F. v. p. 169. Dendrocygna javanica, Hume $ 

 Dew. tf. F. vi. p. 4*<>; (Jripps, S.F. vii. p. 311 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 114; Legge, 

 Birds Ceylon, p. 1019 ; Hume # Marsh. Game Birds, iii. p. 109, pi. ; Bingham, 

 6'. F. ix. p. 198 ; Parker, S. F. ix. p. 486; Oates, S. F. x. p. 245 j Kelham, Ibis , 

 1882, p. 197. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead, crown and nape fulvous- 

 brown; sides of the head, chin, throat and neck pale yellowish brown., 



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