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CHENISCUS COROMANDELIANUS. 



Ber. — Vertice, alis, dorso, caudaque, Eeneis-fuscis ; colloque striis nigricantibus strigato. 



COTTON BEENICLE. 

 Ber. with the crown, wings, hack, and tail, hrassy brown ; neck streaked with black. 



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Length 13± Bill 1 Tarsi 1 



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Ber. : crown black or brassy brown ; the remainder of the head and neck white ; a bar of 

 metallic green across the breast ; wings and body brown or black, glossed with green ; beneath 

 white, with the lateral under-tail coverts ferruginous ; legs black ; bill lead-coloured. 



The female differs from the male in the markings being less distinct, and being slightly smaller. 



Both sexes have occasionally the basal half of the quills white. 



Anas Coromandeliana Gmel. Sysl. Nat. 1. 522. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 875. 



Bernicla Coromandeliana Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 56. 



Coromandel Teal Lath. Gen. Sijn. 6. 556. 



Sarcelle de Coromandel Buff. PI. Enl. 949-950. 



Bernicla Girra Gray Ind. Zool. 



Is found in Coromandel, Australia, and India. Specimens are in the museum of the Zoological 

 Society, and in the British Museum. 



This bird, which is included in Col. Sykes's catalogue of birds found in the Deccan, 

 contained in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society," is said by that gentleman to be 

 " monogamous : vegetable matter and gravel were found in the stomach. These birds, when 

 wounded, dive, and on returning to the surface shew only the bill above water, keeping the body 

 below at pleasure." It is called the " Cotton Teal" by the Europeans of the Deccan, from the 

 quantity of white in the plumage. 



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