Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 879 



GENUS QUERQUEDULA Steph. 



The Garganeys are of small size, and may best be distinguished from 

 Nettion by the shape of the wing; the secondaries of Querquedula are very 

 short, the shorter ones being considerably less than half the length of the wing, 

 as against two-thirds in Nettion. The blue or bluish grey upper wing-coverts 

 of Querquedula are, as Salvador i's key shows, also characteristic. 



Five species: "Northern Hemisphere and Neotropical Region". 



373. QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA (L.). 



Garganey. 



a. Anas querquedula (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 203; (II) Naum., Vog. DeutscU. XI, 677, 



t. 303 (1842); (3) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Anseres, 1866, 49; (4) Eosenb., Malay. Archip. 

 1878, 279; (5) id., Zool. Garten 1881, 167; (6) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, IH, 400; 

 (7) Tacz., Faun. Oni. Sib. Orient. 1893, 11, 1145. 



b. Anas circia (1) Linn., S. N. 1766, I, 204; (2) Brugg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 464; 



(3) Legge, B. Ceylon 1880, 1080; (4) Seeb., B.Japan 1890, 246. 

 auerquedula circia (I) Steph., Gen. Zool. XH, 2, p. 143, pi. 51 (1824); (2) Swinli., Ibis 

 1863, 434; (III) Sharpe & Dresser, B. Eui-ope VI, 513, pi. 427 (1871); (4) Wald., 

 Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 102; (5) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 361; (6) David 

 &Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 502; (7) Hume & Davis., Str. F. 1878, VI, 489; (8) 

 Prjev., Rowley's Orn. Misc. 1878, lU, 103; (9) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 144; (10) 

 W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 140; (11) Gates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, H, 287; (12) 

 Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1884, XLIV, 253; (13) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 

 1886, 171; (14) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1889, XLIX, 419; (15) Everett, J. Str. 

 Br. R. A. S. 1889, 192; (16) Gates ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 1890, IH, 

 291; (17) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Philipp. Is. 1890, 27; (IS) Styan, Ibis 1891, 

 328, 496; (19) De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 492; (20) Styan, Ibis 1893, 435; (21) 

 Salvad., Cat. B. 1895, XXVH, 293. 



c. ftuerquedula querquedula (1) Baird, Am. Journ. of Sc. & Arts 1866, XLI, 339; (2) 



Stejn., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, Nr. 29, 156; (3) Sharpe, Brit. B. 1896, IE, 291. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvadori 21. 



Figures and descriptions. Naumann a II; Sharpe and Dresser III; Legge b 3; 

 Taczanowski a 7; Salvadori 21; etc., etc. 



Winter plumage. Above sepia -brown, the feathers with pale edgings, which are broadest 

 and palest — buff-white — on the upper tail-coverts, and grey on lower back; hind 

 neck almost uniform grey-brown; head above blackish with light bro^vn edges to 

 the feathers; a dark brown streak through the eye; sides of head, face, throat 

 and sides of neck white, finely streaked with brown, except a clear streak on sides 

 of occiput, a spot at base of bill, and chin and upper throat; jugulum and breast 

 rufous buff, with spots and irregular bars of blackish; remaining under-parts 

 white, with indistinct spots and bars, taking the form of large brown spots on the 

 under tail-coverts; upper wing-coverts and adjacent scapulars hght grey-blue, 

 the greater series terminally wliite; secondaries metaUic grey-green, tipped with 

 white, primaries where exposed blackish, elsewhere greyish brown, shafts white; 

 tertiaries edged with white; wing below brownish grey, darkest on lesser wing- 



