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and belly white, spotted with brown on the flanks and lower 

 abdomen. 



The Garganey or Blue-winged Teal, although very common 

 throughout the district, scarcely occurs in such immense numbers 

 as the Common Teal. It is good eating, equal if not superior to 

 Q. crecca. 



Querquedula formosa, Geor. 



966. Q. glocitans, Pall Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 808 ; 

 Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 302 ; Game Birds of 

 India, Vol. Ill, p. 225. 



THE CLUCKING TEAL. 



c?. Length, 15'8; wing, 8'15; tail, 3'9 ; tarsus, 1 '3; bill at. 

 front, 1'5 ; bill from gape, 1'92 ; weight, 1 Ib. 



Bill dusky ; irides chesnut-brown ; legs dusky. 



Male : forehead, top of the head, and occiput, rich purple- 

 brown, banded by a narrow white line from the eye ; face, cheeks, 

 and sides of cheeks fawn color ; a black streak from below the 

 eye, meeting a black patch on the throat ; nape and hind-neck 

 glossy green, ending in a black stripe down the back of the 

 neck, separated from the fawn color of the side of the neck by a 

 narrow white line ; upper plumage finely marbled-grey, edged 

 with rufous on the back ; upper wing-coverts hair-brown ; the 

 median-coverts the same, with an edging of rufous forming the 

 anterior margin of the speculum, which is glossy -green, ending 

 in velvet-black, and bordered posteriorly by silvery-white ; pri- 

 maries brown ; scapulars lengthened, deep black in the centre, 

 white on their upper side, and rufous externally ; upper tail- 

 coverts brown, white on either side ; tail of 16 feathers dark 

 brown ; beneath the throat .black ; the neck and breast vinous- 

 purple, with a few black spots, paling below ; abdomen white ; 

 flanks mottled-grey ; under tail-coverts black. 



The female wants the rich markings on the head and face, 

 which are mottled grey and brown ; the scapulars are not length- 

 ened ; the upper plumage is dusky, with rufous edgings ; the chin 

 and throat white ; the breast rufous, largely spotted with dark 

 brown, as are the flanks ; the tail-coverts white, with brown spots. 



The Clucking Teal is a very rare straggler within our limits, 

 but a specimen has been recorded from the Muncher Lake in 

 Sind. 



SUB-FAMILY, Fuligulinse. 



Hind- toe short, 'bordered by a more or less wide web ; wings 

 shorter than in the last sub-family ; tarsus short, mojca, com- 

 pressed, set further backwards ; feet large, the web reaching to 

 the very end of the toes, and wide*; tail generally short, rounded, 

 or somewhat wedged. 



GENUS, Fuligula, Steph. 



Bill nearly as long as the head, moderately wide ; tip 



