ANDAMAN TEAL 
ANAS ALBOGULAKIS (Hume) 
Synonymy 
Querqucdula andamanerisis Tytler, in Beavan, Ibis, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 333, 1867 
{nomen nudum). 
Nettion andamanensis G. R. Gray, Hand-list Birds, pt. 3, p. 84, 1871. 
Anas andamanensis Giebel, Thesanrns Ornith., vol. 1, p. 344, 1872. 
Mareca punctata Ball {nec Anas punctata Cuvier), Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 41, 
pt. 2, p. 290, 1872. 
Mareca albogularis Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 1, p. 303, 1873. 
Mareca gibberifrons Walden {nec S. Muller), Ibis, ser. 3, vol. 3, p. 321, 1873. 
Querqucdula gibberifrons Hume (nee S. Muller), Stray Feathers, vol. 8, p. 115, 1879. 
Nettion albigulare Salvador!, Cat. Birds British Mus., vol. 27, p. 257, 1895. 
Polionetta albigularis Fleming, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 24, p. 215, 1911. 
Vernacular Names 
English: Andaman Teal, Mangrove Teal, Oceanic Teal, Gibbery. 
German: Andamanenente. 
DESCRIPTION 
Adult Male: Very similar to Anas gibberifrons but the top of the head is more uniform black, the 
sides of the head are unspotted, and there is a ring of white feathers around and below the eye. In 
specimens from North Reef Island the whole head is more or less white. Speculum nearly like that of 
Anas gibberifrons, but the first secondary is almost white on the outer edge and the wing-band is 
slightly wider and darker buff color. 
“Legs and feet greenish blue to plumbeous, webs usually darker; bill plumbeous, nail black; in 
some the lower mandible, in one the terminal two thirds of this, pink; irides reddish” (Hume). 
Wing 196-200 mm.; bill 35; tarsus 36. 
Weight, 12 ounces to one pound (0.34 to 0.40 kilograms) (Hume and Marshall, 1879; Finn, 1915). 
Adult Female: Same as male. 
Im.mature Specimens: According to Salvadori the dusky markings on the under surface are less 
distinct. 
Young in Down: Somewhat like the young of the Common Teal (Anas crecca) but much darker on 
the cheeks, and with some irregular white spots about the eye. There is no trans-ocular dark 
streak and the light superciliary streak is lacking. The light spots on the wing-rudiments, 
scapular area and sides of rump are about the same as in the Teal and in many other ducks (speci- 
men at Tring). 
