105. THE BAIKAL TEAL. 



Nettium formosum, (GEORGI.) 



Outer web of the primaries blackish ; 



inner web drab, with a blackish tip. 

 Axillaries white, mottled with brown 



at the tip. 



Wing about eight inches in length. 

 Shafts of primaries brown. 

 Greater upper wing-coverts uniformly 



tipped with cinnamon. 

 Speculum formed by two oblique bands ; 



the upper, metallic green, sometimes 



very small in extent; the lower, 



black. 



MALE : Sides of the head buff, with a 

 black band from the eye to the throat. 



FEMALE : A well-defined oval buff spot 

 at the side of the base of the upper 

 mandible ; sides of the head streaked 

 with black. 



VERNACULAR NAMES : None known. 



THE Baikal, or Clucking, Teal is probably 

 one of those birds which visit India in 

 larger numbers than is generally suspected. 



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