406 AXATIN.E. 



Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 294 ; Game Birds of India, 



Vol. Ill, p. 237. 



THE MAKBLED TEAL. 



<?. Length, 18'3 to 19 ; expanse, 28'5 to 29'5 ; wing, 8'1 

 to 8-5 ; tail, 3'6 to 4 ; tarsus, 1'44 to 1'52 ; bill at front, 177 to 

 1'85 ; weight, 1-ft to 1 1% Ibs. 



? . Length, 16'9 to 17'5 ; expanse, 27 to 28 ; wing, 7'9 to 8'1 ; 

 tail, 2'8 to 37; tarsus, 1'4 to 1'5 ; bill at front, 1/6 to 175 ; weight, 

 1 to l-A- Ibs. 



Bill dusky plumbeous, darker on culmen ; irides dark brown ; 

 legs and feet greenish-plumbeous. 



" The male has the forehead, crown, occiput, and nape brownish- 

 white, with numerous narrow, close-set, wavy, irregular, dark 

 brown bars, which become more speckly on the occiput, where 

 also the ground color is a more rufescent-brown ; feathers imme- 

 diately round the eye very dark brown ; a broad irregular stripe 

 over the eye, and a large patch on the side of the head behind 

 the eyes moderately dark brown, shading into the very dark 

 brown immediately surrounding the eyes ; the whole sides of the 

 head below the dark eye and ear-patch, the whole chin, throat 

 and front of neck, slightly greyish or brownish-white, very nar- 

 rowly, regularly and closely streaked with brown ; the lower parts 

 a slightly brownish-white ; the breast feathers with greyish-brown 

 subterminal transverse bars, mostly more or less concealed by the 

 pale tippings of the superincumbent feathers, and only clearly 

 seen when the feathers are lifted ; the sides and flanks similar, 

 but the subterminal bars much broader, and some of the flank 

 feathers with several bars ; the vent-feathers and under tail- 

 coverts, generally, with a slightly more rufescent tinge, and with 

 two or more narrow, widely separated, transverse brown bars ; the 

 tibial plumes browner, and with numerous narrow, closely set, 

 but ill marked, transverse brown bars ; the abdomen more or less 

 obsoletely mottled with pale grey-brown, which, on lifting the 

 feathers, is found to arise from more or less faint, irregular, trans- 

 verse, subterminal, brownish bars. 



" The barrings above described are very much more marked in, 

 some specimens than in others, in some in fact they are almost 

 entirely obsolete on the abdomen, and can hardly be traced. 



" The upper back greyish -brown, the feathers with a subtermi- 

 nal richer brown bar ; scapulars brown, each feather with a 

 yellowish-white terminal spot, and of a much richer brown, the 

 larger ones especially, just above the spot ; the tertiaries and 

 secondary greater coverts are greyish-brown, the former obsoletely 

 barred paler ; the secondaries are pale grey ; the primaries 

 their greater-coverts, and the winglet pale ashy, the primaries 

 with a silver-grey tinge on the outer webs towards the tips, 

 where they are much darker, and where the shafts also are 

 conspicuously darker ; the middle-back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts the same grey-brown as the upper part of the back ; the 



