^;ettioi^ albigulare 175 



(30) NETTION ALBIGULARE. 

 THE ANDAMAN TEAL. 



Mareca punctata, Ball, Str. Feath. i, p. 88. 



Mareca albigiilaris, Hume, >Str. Feath. i, p. 303, 



Mareca gibbevifrons, Hume, Nests ^- Eggs, p. 04:4; id. Cat. no. 966 ter; 



Hume cj- Mar. Game-B. iii, p. 243 ; Hume, Nests S^' Eggs {Oates ed.), iii, 



p. 2.90. 

 Nettion albigulare, Saluadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 257. 

 Nettium albigulare, Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 444 ; Inglis, Jour. 



B. N. H. S. XV, p. 52.5 ; Wilson, ibid. ; Osmaston, ibid, xvii, p. 491 ; Oates, 



Game-B. ii, p. 158. 



Description. Adult male. — "Upper part of the head brown; this colour 

 covers also the upper parts of the cheeks and gradually changes into the white 

 of the lower part of the cheeks and throat ; the brown of the cheeks with 

 obsolete dusky streaks ; I'ound the eyes there is a ring of Avhite feathers, broader 

 below ; in some specimens on the lores or at the base of the bill there are some 

 white feathers ; upper parts brown, the edges of the feathers of the back and 

 scapulars pale brown ; rump uniform ; the feathers of the breast and abdomen pale 

 brown in the centre, and broadly margined with brownish fawn-colour, producing 

 a mottled appearance ; under tail-coverts brown, almost uniform ; upper wing- 

 coverts dark brown, greater or last row of wing-coverts white, forming a band, 

 diminishing in breadth and tinged with brown inwardly ,; speculum velvety black, 

 with a longitudinal, coppery-green baud on the middle, from the seventh to the 

 ninth secondary, and bounded at the tip by a buff band ; the first secondary 

 broadly white on the outer web ; tertials broadly velvety black on the outer web; 

 primaries brown, with an olive lustre ; under wing-coverts brown, the median 

 ones tipped with white ; axill.iries white ; tail brown." (Salvadori.) 



"Legs and feet greenish-blue to plumbeous; webs usually darker; claws 

 horny; bill greenish-blue, plumbeous or plumbeous-blue, nail black; in some, 

 the low^er mandible tinged with, in one the terminal two-thirds of this, ])ink : 

 irides reddish-brown to deep brownish-red. 



"Length 16 to 18 inches, expanse 24"5 to 27, tail from vent 4 to 4-2, 

 wing 7*5 to 8, tarsus 1*3 to 1-4, bill at front 1'4 to ]'5, from gape 1*7 to 1-8, 

 wings when closed reach from 2 to 2-2 from end of tail. Weight 1 lb." (Hume.) 



" Rectrices 16 inches " {Blanford]. This refers to male and female. 



Female. — " ISimilar to the male, but smaller, and the lower surface duller and 

 the centerings of the feathers less marked, the green band on the wing-speculum 

 more coppery. Total length 15*5 to 16 inches, wing 7'25 to 7"4, culmcn 1*3 to 

 1"35." {Salvadori.) 



" Length 15 to 10 inclies, expanse 24 to 25-."), tail from vent 3-25 to 3*5, 



