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Legge, " Birds of Ceylon," p. 1066 ; Bingham, " Str. Feath.," IX, 

 p. 198; Oates, "Birds of British Burinah," II, p. 272;- Hume, 

 "Nests and Eggs" (Oates' ed.), HI, p. 280; Barnes, "Birds of 

 Bombay," p. 397. 



Nettapus coramandelicus. — Hume, " Nests and Eggs," p. 638 ; 

 Hume and Marshall, " Game Birds," III, Plate XIV. 



Nettapus coramandus. — Hume, " Str. Feath.," Ill, p. 192/ 



Nettapus coramandelianus. — Hume, " Str. Feath.," VI, p. 491 ; id., 

 VIII, p. 114 ; id., Cat. No. 951 ; Hume and Marshall, " Game 

 Birds," III, p. 101; Oates, " Str. Feath.," X, p. 245 ; Salvadori, 

 Cat. B. of B. Museum," XXVII, p. 68. 



Description : Adult Male. — Extreme point of forehead white, remain- 

 der and crown brown, the lateral edges much darker, almost black ; 

 a complete broad collar round the base of the neck black, a little, 

 glossed with green ; remainder of head, neck, lower plumage, and a 

 collar behind the black collar white ; flanks most minutely stippled 

 and more or less barred with light brown, sometimes almost absent ; 

 under-tail coverts, broadly barred and tipped or sub-tipped brown ; 

 scapulars and back dark brown, completely overlaid with dark green 

 gloss slightly mixed with purple ; upper-tail coverts dirty white, 

 freckled with brown. Innermost secondaries brown glossed with 

 purple ; remaining secondaries glossed green and tipped with white ; 

 primaries glossy green tipped brown, and with a broad white band 

 continuing the bar made by the white tips of the secondaries ; tail brown. 



Bill, legs and feet black, the two latter more or less tinged with 

 slatey-yellow ; irides bright crimson-red. 



" Sides of tarsus and toes dusty yellow ; claws horny brown." 

 (Oates). 



Length, 12'5" to 13*5" ; wing, 6" to 7", rarely over &'&' or under 

 6*3"; tail about 3" ; culmen about "9" to '95" ; tarsus, 1''. 



Weight between 9 and 12 oz. 



Female. — -Cap as in the male but uniform brown ; forehead more 

 broadly white speckled with brown ; a deep brown line running 

 through the eye ; remainder of lower plumage and head white, 

 the breast and lower neck with narrow bars of dark brown, taking 

 the place of the collar in the male ; face and neck much vermiculated 

 with brown ; and the flanks both barred and speckled with the . 



