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16. Dendrocycna javanica. 

 The Lesser or Common Whistling Teal. 



Dendrocygna arcuata. Hume, " Stray Feathers," I, p. 260 ; id, 

 " Nests and Eggs," p. 639 ; id., " Stray Feathers," II, p. 315 ; Ball, 

 ibid, p. 483 ; Oates, ibid, V, p. 169. 



Dendrocygna awsuree. Jerdon, " Birds of India," III, p. 786. 



Dendrocygna javanica. Hume and Davis, " Stray Feathers," VI, 

 pp. 486, 488 ; Cripps, ibid, VII, p. 311 ; Hume, ibid, VIII, p. 71 ; 

 Hume's Cat., No. 952 .; Legge's " Birds of Ceylon," p. 1069 ; Hume 

 and Marshall, " Game Birds," III, p. 109 ; Bingham, " Stray Fea- 

 thers," IX, p. 198 ; Park, ibid, p. 486 ; Oates, " Stray Feathers," X, 

 p. 245 ; Oates, " Birds of British Burmah," II, p. 273 ; Barnes, 

 " Birds of Bomhay," p. 398 ; Hume, " Nests and Eggs" (Oates' ed.), 

 Ill, p. 284. 



Dendrocycna javanica. Salvadori, " Cat. of Birds, British Museum," 

 XXVII, p. 156. 



Description: Adult Male. — Forehead and crown brown, paler and 

 reddish on the forehead and darkest on the occiput ; remainder of head 

 and neck pale fulvous-grey, paler on the cheeks and almost white on 

 the chin and upper throat ; this colour gradually changes into yellowish- 

 o-rey or yellowish-fulvous on the breast, which again changes into the 

 chestnut of the lower parts, and this again in its turn fades into the dirty, 

 creamy-white of the lower tail coverts. Above the colour of the neck 

 changes into brown on the scapulars and back, where the feathers are 

 broadly margined with golden-rufous ; rump black ; upper tail coverts . 

 chestnut, tail brown, very narrowly margined with paler dingy rufous ; 

 lesser and median wing coverts chestnut, the latter sometimes mixed 

 with ashy ; greater coverts dark ashy, rarely splashed with chestnut next 

 the primaries ; quills black, the inner secondaries more brown and 

 edged with dingy ash colour ; flanks chestnut, the feathers sometimes 

 centred paler ; axillaries brown. 



Irides dark brown; bill almost black to slatey-grey with the nail 

 darker ; feet slatey-brown to dull black. " Eyelids bright yellow " 

 (Salvadori). 



" The irides are deep brown ; the eyelids bright yellow to pale golden ; 

 the legs and feet generally dark, at times. somewhat pale plumbeous 

 blue, often dusky in patches and on the webs and claws blackish; bill 



