54 INDIAN DUCK^ 



Genus JEX. 



Accordino- to the British Museum Catidooue the Mandarin Duck is 

 included in the Plectropterina', and the key is as follows : — 



No comb on base of bill. 



Head crested ^a\ 



Both Ogilvie-Grant and E. Gates, however, pointed out to me that a far 

 better generic character is provided in the silver-grey edging to the 

 primaries, a character 1)y which it may Ijc at once distinguished from any 

 other Indian Duck. 



(9) ^X GALERICULATA. 

 THE MANDAEIX DUCK. 



Anas galericulata, Lath. Iml. Om. ii, p. S71. 



Aix galericulata, Goxdd, B. Asia, vii, p. 80 ; Gates. Garuc-B. ii. p. 136 : 



Finn, Fane;/ Water-Fowl, p. 20 ; Bennett, Waixhriuris in A\'U' South 



Wales, ii, p. 62 ; Latham, Syn. iii, p. 548. 

 Mx galericulata. Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xx\ii, p. 76. 



Description. Adult male. — Superciliiim fi-om the base of the bill to the end 

 of the crest pure white ; forehead to nape glossy green, thence the long thick 

 crest is metallic purple, more or less mixed with green on the basal halt and 

 entirel)' green on the terminal third, \\hich is sometimes shot with deep blue ; 

 face and sides of the head buff, shading into white round the eye and into 

 cinnamon-red on the posterior cheek, chin, and throat ; the ueck-liackles are 

 bright chestnut, tipped with purple and white striae on the anterior portion; 

 remainder of upper plumage and lesser wing-coverts dull brow n glossed with 

 bronzed green, especially on the mantle and upper tail-coverts ; tail grey-brown 

 glossed green. Lower neck and sides of breast brilliant purple-copper ; sides oE 

 lower breast with three baud.s of black and two of white ; remainder of lower 

 parts white ; flanks vermiculated black and brow n, but with copper bars opposite 

 the vent and with black and white bars at the end of the flank-feathers. 

 Scapulars grey-brown, the iunermost completely glossed with deep blue and the 

 median with green, the change being graded and not clearly defined ; the 

 outermost are white with broad black edges. The innermost secondary, which is 

 enormously broadened into a fan shape, is chestnut on the inner web, tij^ped 

 paler on the outer half and w itb blue on the inner, on the outer web of the 

 secondary the tip is chestnut, the remainder deep glossy blue ; other secondaries 



