ANAS. 437 



p. 403 ; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Sac*]., p. 61 ; vi, p. 290 ; Salvadori, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 616 j Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 344 ; 

 Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 289 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. 

 xxvii, p. 209. 



Anas pcekilorhyncha, Gtnel. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 535 (1788) ; Hume, 

 N. $ E. p. 643 ; id. S. F. i, p. 261 ; Adam, ibid. p. 402 ; Butler fy 

 Hume, S. F. iv, p. 29. 



Garm-pai, JBata, Guyral, H. ; Hunjur, Sind ; Naddun, Nepal Terai ; 

 Kara, Manipur ; Vum-be, Burmese. 



Fig. 111. Bill of A. pcecilortyncha. . 



Coloration. Forehead aud crown, and a broad band on each side, 

 including lores and eye, dark brown with pale streaks ; superciliary 

 bands, sides of head, and all the neck whitish, with minute brown 

 streaks, passing on the lower neck into larger brown spots ; chin 

 and throat immaculate ; upper back and scapulars brown, with 

 pale edges to the feathers ; lower back, rump, upper and under 

 tail-coverts, and tail black, a slight gloss of metallic green on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; quills dark brown, outer webs of 

 secondaries metallic green, changing to purple, with a sub terminal 

 black band and narrow white tip ; outer webs of tertiaries white ; 

 greater coverts with a broad subterminal white band and black 

 tip ; smaller and median coverts brown, pale towards edge of 

 wing ; wing-lining white ; breast and abdomen white or fulvous 

 white, with brown centres to feathers forming spots; lower abdomen 

 dark brown. Sexes alike. 



Bill black, base of upper mandible orange, tip of both mandibles 

 (except the nail, which is generally black in part) yellow to orange ; 

 irides brown ; legs and feet orange to vermilion, the latter in old 

 males. Rectrices 18 in females, and apparently 20 in males*. 



Length about 24; tail 4-1; wing 11; tarsus 1-9; bill from 

 gape 2-5. Females are rather less in size : wing 10. 



* I can find but one male specimen with the tail perfect. This skin is 

 dated August 1st, and shows no sign of moulting. It has never been ascer- 

 tained whether the drake of this species moults after breeding. It is evidently 

 advantageous for drakes that wear a gaudy plumage in the nuptial season to 



