608 MARMARONETTA EUNETTA 



EuJiilla, Roseta, Span. ; Cfarganella marmorata, Ital. ; 

 Oozonosbi-tcTiirok, Russ. ; Chihil, Moor. 



<$ ad. (Spain). Head greyish brown barred with dark brown, the 

 region round the eye dark brown ; upper parts dull brown tinged with 

 grey, mottled and marbled with light greyish brown ; quills ashy grey ; 

 secondaries pale creamy brown ; wing-coverts brownish grey ; tail ashy 

 brown tipped with creamy buff ; under parts greyish white, the sides of 

 head, throat, and neck finely striped with brown, the breast barred, and 

 flanks barred and marbled with greyish brown ; under tail-coverts pale 

 buff indistinctly barred ; bill bluish grey, black on culmen and tip ; legs 

 dusky olive ; iris brown. Culmen T8, wing 7 '9, tail 3'2, tarsus 1 P 2 inch. 

 Female similar but duller. 



Hob. Southern Europe, North Africa, Canaries, South-west 

 Asia, east to Northern India. 



In habits this Duck resembles the Teal, and like that 

 bird feeds on vegetable matter, Crustacea, insects, and worms ; 

 its note is a low croaking whistle. Its nest is constructed 

 of twigs and bents, lined with down, and is placed on the ground 

 near water, usually under a bush, and its eggs 8 to 14 in number 

 are usually laid in May, and are cream-coloured like those of 

 Q. crecca and measure about T86 by 1*34. 



EUNETTA, Bonap., 1856. 



847. FALCATED TEAL. 

 EUNETTA FALCATA, 



Eunetta falcata (Georgi), Reis. Russ. Reich, i. p. 167 (1775) ; (Naum.), 

 xiii. Taf. 389, fig. 1 ; (Dresser), vi. p. 525, pi. 429 ; David and Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 504 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvii. p. 218 ; 

 Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 438 ; (Tacz.), F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1135 ; 

 (Seebohm), B. Jap. Emp. p. 245. 



Kossatii-Sselesen, Kossatka, Russ. ; Yoshi-gamo, Jap. 



ad. (Siberia). Crown chestnut-red ; a band round the nape and the 

 long nuchal crest metallic green ; throat white, below which is a green 

 collar followed by another of white ; upper parts vermiculated with 

 greyish brown and white ; lower back dark brown, indistinctly vermiculated 

 with grey ; upper tail-coverts very long and black ; tail greyish brown ; 

 wing-coverts clear grey, the larger white at the tip ; speculum metallic 

 green ; inner secondaries very long, sickle-shaped, black, glossed with 

 green, the shafts and external margins whitish ; under parts white 

 vermiculated and barred with grey ; under tail-coverts long, black ; on 



