180 INDIAN DUCKS. 



discoloured. They vary in leuf^th from 1'6G to 2'02 incbes and in 

 breadth from I'-IO to 1*47, the averao;e of nine eggs being 1-93 by 

 1-43 inches." 



It may, of course, eventually turn out that the Andaman Teal, like the 

 Whistling-Teal, make th(!ir nests sometimes on the ground and sometimes 

 on trees. 



