112 CLUCKING TEAL. 



■wastes of the far north.. It is a form more truly indigenous to 

 Siberia and the northern parts of Russia than to any other country. 

 In Siberia it was found by Pallas on the borders of Lake Baikal 

 and the banks of the Lena. Its range extends to the Amur-Lande, 

 Japan, and China. 



From a recent notice given by Dr. Leojjold Von Schrenck, in 

 his "Vogel des Amur-Landes/' published at St. Petersburgh in 1860, 

 I extract the following: — "The Amur specimens of this beautiful 

 Duck agree fully with Siberian specimens in our museums, with the 

 known descriptions of Pallas, Brandt, and Middendorff, and with 

 those of Temminck and Schlegel in the '^ Fauna Japonica." In the 

 breeding plumage of the Amur male, the fawn-coloured patches on 

 the cheeks and sides of throat vary in being darker or lighter." 



"In Amur-Lande A glocitans is much less plentiful than the 

 Common Teal, fAtias crecca,) and it appears later in the month of 

 April: Middendorff first saw it in May. I shot a young individual 

 on the 31st. of August, (Sept. 12th.,) 1854, with fully-developed 

 ■wings. I met with small flocks of young individuals in the late 

 summer of 1856, on the Upper Amur, as far as the Ustj-Strelka 

 rather often. A specimen was brought to me from the upper Dseja 

 on August 16th., (28th.;) it was a dead fully -grown male still in its 

 summer plumage, having been driven down by the stream: it was 

 stiif, but quite fresh." 



Middendorff, in his "Sibirische Reise," vol. i, part 2, p. 230, gives 

 a long and interesting account of this Teal, from which I extract the 

 following: — "Although the most common species of Duck on the 

 Boganida, 70° north latitude,) it does not nevertheless extend upwards 

 as far as the river Taimyra. They were not observed on the 

 Boganida before the 12th. of June. On the 3rd. of July seven 

 fresh-laid eggs were discovered in a nest under a willow bush 

 adjacent to the bank of the river. On the 24th. of July the feathers 

 on the head, on the shoulders, and on the wings of the downy 

 young ones had already commenced making their appearance; but 

 nevertheless on the 4th. of August they were unfledged. On the 

 28th. of July a male was shot which had already put on the 

 plumage of its sex. The last bird of this species remained on the 

 Boganida until the 23rd. of August." 



"This species likewise frequently appeared in the Stanowoj 

 Mountains on the river Aim, and in Udskoj-Ostrog, where they 

 arrived^ in the early part of May." 



"The eggs are small, and of a bluish yellow colour, the smallest 

 being fifty millemetres (two inches, English) in its long diameter, and 



