880 Birds of Celebes: Anatidae. 



coverts; the longer ones, axillaries and base of remiges white (q'? — Lake Limbotto, 

 Jan. 1876: van Musschenbroek — 5273). 



Female. Similar to the sijecimen described above, but with hardly any gloss on the speculum, 

 jugulimi and breast deeper rufous, with dark middles to the feathers on the former 

 region and dusky bars on the breast (2, Lake Limbotto, July, 1871 : Meyer — 859). 



Male in breeding plumage. Differs in having the face, throat and sides of neck brown, with 

 white shaft-streaks; a broad white stripe from above eye to half-way down the 

 hind neck; breast pale raw umber, with U-shaped bars of black, forming into 

 straighter bars on lower breast; chin black; scapulars black, each with a stripe 

 down the middle white or buff (q^. Saxony — Nr. 10505). 



Measurements (3 examples from Celebes). Wing 188 — 193 mm; tail c. 75; tarsus c. 29; 

 middle toe and claw c. 41; exposed cidmen 35 — 38. 



Young. The young in down is dark brown above, pale brown below; a buff streak above 

 the eye, a dark streak through it. 



Eggs and nest. 8 to 10 eggs, oval, rich creamy yellow: 47.5 X 36.8 mm. The bird nests 

 on the ground, in herbage or rushes, using rushes and dry grass, with its own down 

 for a lining (Sharpe & Dresser III). 



Distribution. "Palaearctic Eegion, wintering in Xorthern Afi-ica as far south as Shoa and 

 Somah-land, in Palestine, India with Ceylon, in Burmah, China, Japan, Philippines, 

 Borneo, Java, Celebes, Ternate and Ceram" (Salvadori 21). Phihppines — (Leyden 

 Mus. a 3,, Luzon (Steere 17); N. W. Borneo (Hose 21), Labuan (Lempriere 15, 

 Everett 21); Sumatra (fide Vorderman i4); Java (S. Miiller a 5, Vorderman 72); 

 Celebes ^ Lake Limbotto (Rosenberg a 3, a 5, Meyer 9, Riedel b 2, 13, Faber 

 and V. Musschenbroek in Dresden Mus.), ? Manado (in British Mus.); Temate 

 (Rosenberg o G); Ceram (Wallace 21). 



The Garganey is, most likely, simply a winter visitor to Celebes, though 

 some individuals remain there during the summer, as is shown by the fact that 

 Meyer got it at Limbotto in July, 1871, while W. Blasius records an example 

 obtained by Riedel in the summer dress of the male. Up to the present the 

 Lake of Limbotto is the only locality in Celebes positively known for this Duck; 

 here it is said by Rosenberg and Meyer to be rather scarce. The nearest 

 part of Asia, where it is known to nest, seems to be S. E. Mongolia; where it 

 was found breeding by Prjevalsky (8, a 7). It has indeed been recorded as 

 breeding in India, but more evidence thereof is wanting (16). In South-east 

 Mongolia it arrives about the middle of April. In South China it is known as a 

 bird of passage; Mr. De La Touche reports it "abundant at Foochow from the 

 end of February to the late spring. They pass again towards the middle of 

 Sejitember, but not in such numbers. This Teal also passes Swatow in spring 

 and autumn." It is recorded as a winter visitor to India, Ceylon, Burmah, 

 Japan, by Hume, Legge, Oates, and Seebohm (16, h3, 11, b4). 



In the Catalogue of the Ducks, Salvadori separates Querquedula from 

 Nettion somewhat widely, but it is not very easy to point to structural charac- 

 ters wherein the two forms differ. The chief difference seems to lie in the 

 wing: the secondaries of Querquedula are shorter than in Nettion — about one- 

 third shorter, as measured from the tips of the greater coverts, forming a 



