NETTAPUS COROMANDELIAKUS. 47 



Genus NETTAPUS. 



Unlike the two last genera, the present one contains four species, though 

 of these only one is found in Indian limits. The type of the genus is 

 Xettapns aurkus, which is found throughout a great part of South Africa 

 and also in Madagascar. The other two forms, JSf. jndcJiellus and JV. alhl- 

 pennis, are both Australian, the former being obtained in New Guinea and 

 some other islands. 



Nettapus can be distinguished from all other genera by the following 

 characteristics being combined in it : — 



Rather long hind toe, not lobed ; feet pahnated ; neck short ; wing- 

 under 7 inches. 



(8) NETTAPUS COROMANDELIANUS. 

 THE COTTON-TEAL. 



Nettapus coromandelianus, Jcrdon, B. I. iii, p. 786 ; Butler, Str. Feath. iv, 



p. 27; Hume, ihid.; Hume cj* Davison, ibid. vi. p. 486; Oates, ibid, vii, 



p. 52: Cripp>s, ihid. p. 311; Legge, B. of Cey. p. 1066; Bingham, Str. 



Feath. ix, p. 198 ; Oates, B. of Brit. Burm. ii, p. 272 ; Hume, 3/e.sts 4' ^[/[/^ 



(Oates ed.), iii, p. 280 ; Barnes, B. Bom. p. 397. 

 Nettapus coromandelicus, Hume, Nests Jj- Eggs, p. 638 ; Hume 4' ^J^ar. 



Game-B. iii, pi. 14. 

 Nettapus coromandus, Hume, Str. Feath. iii, p. 192. 

 Nettopus coromandelianus, Hume, Str. Feath. vi, p. 491; id. viii, p. 114; 



id. Cat. uo. 951 ; Hume c^' Mar. Game-B. iii, p. 101 ; Oates, Str. Feath. 



X, p. 245 ; Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 68 ; Young, Jour. B. N. H. S. 



xii, p. 573 ; Butler, ihid. xiii, p. 154 ; Mono, ibid, xv, p. 515 ; 



Farrington, ihid. xv, p. 143 ; Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 433 ; Oates, 



Game-B. ii, p. 127. 



Description. Adult male. — Extreme point of forehead white, remainder and 

 crown brown, the lateral edges much darker, almost black ; a complete broad 

 collar round the base of the neck black, a little glossed with green ; remainder of 

 head, neck, lower plumage, and a collar behind the black collar white ; flanks 

 most minutely stippled and more or less barred with light brown, sometimes 

 almost absent ; under tail-coverts broadly barred and tipped or subtipped 

 brown ; scapulars and back darlv brown, completely ovei'laid with dark green 

 gloss slightly mixed with purple ; upper tail-coverts dirty white freckled with 

 brown. Innermost secondaries brown glossed with purple; remaining secondaries 



