106. THE GARGANEY. 



Querquedula cirria, ( LINNAEUS). 



Outer web of the primaries blackish ; 



inner web drab, with a blackish tip. 

 Axillaries pure white. 

 Wing eight inches or less in length. 

 Shafts of primaries white. 

 Bill rather wider near the tip than at 



the base. 

 Speculum pale metallic greyish green, 



or brown ; a broad white band above 



and below the speculum. 



MALE : Speculum pale metallic greyish 

 green ; a large white eye-band. 



FEMALE : Speculum brown, often tinged 

 with green ; no white eye-band. 



VERNACULAR NAMES : Chaitwa, 

 Patari, Khira, Hind. ; Ghang-roib, 

 Girza, Bengal. 



THE Garganey, or Blue-winged Teal, is a 

 winter visitor to every portion of the 

 Empire, including Ceylon. It has not 

 yet been actually obtained in the southern 

 portion of Tenasserim, but it will un- 

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