286 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



and southerly locality where I can find its occurrence recorded is Cochin 

 China, where Dr. Tiraud states that it is very common in winter. 



This Teal is found in every part of the country where there is water, 

 and in some large swamps, such as those at Engmah and Payagalay, large 

 flocks are frequently seen. In Europe it breeds at the commencement of 

 summer, making its nest on the ground in grass, and laying ten to fifteen 

 pale yellowish eggs. 



647, QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA. 

 THE GARGANEY TEAL. 



Anas circia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 204 ; Bl. B, Burm. p. 166 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 

 p. 1080. Querquedula circia, Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. p. 807 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. 

 p. 513, pi. ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 644 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 193 ; Scully, S. F. iv. 

 p. 201 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 502 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 489 ; Cripps, 

 8. F. vii. p. 312 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 115 ; Scully, S. F. viii. p. 363 ; Hume $ 

 Marsh. Game Birds, iii. p. 215, pi. ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 198 ; Oates, S. F. x. 

 p. 245. 



Description. Male. Crown and a broad band over the nape down the 

 upper part of the hind neck umber-brown ; a broad streak from above the 

 eye white, reaching as far as the umber-brown band; forehead, cheeks, 

 sides of the head and the upper part of the neck chestnut-brown streaked 

 with white ; chin black ; the lower neck and the whole breast fulvous, 

 each feather with a crescentic black bar ; abdomen white ; sides of the 

 body white barred with black ; under tail-coverts yellowish spotted with 

 black ; back glossy brown, the feathers edged with ashy ; scapulars greenish 

 black, long and sharp-pointed, with long narrow white streaks down the 

 centres ; upper tail-coverts fulvous blotched with black ; tail brown, the 

 lateral feathers edged with fulvous ; wing-coverts bluish ash, the greater 

 coverts with a broad tipping of white ; primaries dark brown ; secondaries 

 glossy green tipped with white, the green forming a conspicuous wing- 

 patch ; tertiaries brown, more or less margined with yellowish white. 



The female has the forehead, crown, hind neck and upper plumage 

 brown, each feather edged paler ; the sides of the head and neck white 

 streaked with brown ; chin and throat pure white ; the wings very similar 

 to those of the male, but the wing-patch formed by the secondaries is brown 

 barely tinged with green ; the breast and the sides of the body are brown, 

 each feather broadly edged with fulvous ; abdomen white ; under tail- 

 coverts fulvous spotted with black. 



Bill blackish brown, paler on the lower mandible ; legs and feet plum- 

 beous to greenish ; iris brown. 



