FORMOSAN TEAL 
FORMOSA Georgi 
(Plate 33) 
Synonymy 
Anas formosa Georgi, Reise Russ. Reich., p. 168, 1775. 
Anas glocitans Pallas, Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl., Stockholm, ser. 1, vol. 40, pp. 26, 
33, 1779. 
Anas baikal Bonnaterre, Encyclop. Methodique, vol. 1, p. 158, 1791. 
Querquedula formosa Stephens, General ZooL, vol. 12, pt. 2, p. 151, 1824. 
Querquedula glocitans Boie, Oken’s Isis, 1828, col. 329. 
Anas perpulchra Yarrell, Report Council Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 22. 
Anas cucidlata Fischer, Bull. Soc. Imp. des Nat. Moscow, vol. 3, p. 279, 1831. 
Dafila ? cucidlata G. R. Gray, Genera Birds, vol. 3, p. 615, 1845. 
Eunetta formosa Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 43, p. 650, 1856. 
Aix formosa Swinhoe, Ibis, ser. 2, vol. 3, pp. 394, 409, 1867. 
Querquedula himacidata Fritsch {nec auct.), Vogel Europa’s, p. 418, pi. 47, figs. 7, 
11, 1870. 
Eunetta glocitans Prjevalski, in Rowley’s Ornith. Miscellany, vol. 3, p. 105, 1878. 
Nettion formosa Giglioli, Avifauna Ital., p. 312, 1886. 
Nettion formosum Salvadori, Cat. Birds British Mus., vol. 27, p. 240, 1895. 
Vernacular Names 
English: Formosan Teal, Baikal Teal, Clucking Teal, Spectacled Teal, Japanese Teal. 
German: Prachtente, Japanische Ente, Brillen-Kriechente, Zierente. 
French: Sarcelle formose, Sarcelle du Japon, Canard glosseur. 
Italian: Alzavola asiatica. 
Dutch: Japansche Taling. 
Russo-Siberian: Klokonchka. 
Mongolian: Alak-tarikitu. 
Japanese: Ajigamo, Tomoyegamo. 
Yakut: Marodu. 
DESCRIPTION 
Adult Male: Top of the head, a patch at the back of the neck, chin and throat, and a bridle-like 
stripe across the face, black. Remainder of face bufiF, margined with more or less white. Extending 
back from each eye, meeting at the occiput and continuing as a triangle down sides of neck is a bril- 
