PUNA TEAL 
^A'^S PUNA Tschudi 
(Plate 44) 
Synonymy 
Anas puna Tschudi {ex Lichtenstein, AIS.), Archiv f. Natiirgesehichte,vol. 1, p. 315, 
1844. 
Querquedula puna G. R. Gray, Genera of Birds, p. Glfi, 1845. 
Punanefta leucogenys Bonaparte (“Tschudi,” errore), Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 
Paris, vol. 43, p. 649, 1856. 
Punanetta puna G. R. Gray, Hand-list Birds, vol. 3, p. 84, 1871. 
Adelonetta puna Heine, Nomenclator Mus. Heineanum Ornith., p. 346, 1890. 
Vernacular Names 
English: Peruvian Teal, Puna Teal. Spanish: Pato capuchino, Cherito. 
DESCRIPTION 
Adult Male: Similar to the male of Anas versicolor, but much larger. The upper half of the head is 
deep black, more iridescent and the cheeks and throat are very immaculate buff-color. The bars on 
the flanks, lower abdomen and under tail-coverts are narrower. The lower back and rump are 
uniform dusky olive, and not barred with black and white as in Anas versicolor. 
Iris dark hazel (P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1876) but black according to Lane (1897); “brown” 
according to R. M. Beck’s field-notes. Bill light blue with a black streak down the center of the 
culmen and no basal yellow spot. Legs and feet bluish slate-color with claws black. 
AVing 214-226 mm.; bill 46-54; tarsus 33. 
Adult Fem.ale: Similar to the male but somewhat smaller. Wing 205-213 mm. The top of the head 
is slightly more brownish and less iridescent, and the speculum is much less brilliant. 
Young in First Plumage before primaries are grown have the head almost like the adult’s, but the 
rest of the plumage is dull brown all over with the spots on the lower parts very indistinct. 
Young with First Plumage Complete: Lower abdomen without prominent black-and-white bars 
and the speculum the same color as the primaries, or with only small metallic spots on outer web of 
second or third secondaries. The posterior white border of the speeulum as in adult, and the black 
inner bar more or less developed also. 
DISTRIBUTION 
This is another species confined to the high Andean regions of Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile. 
In Peru it has been found about Lake Junin, where it breeds in March and May (,Ielski,^de Taczan- 
owski, 1886; von Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1902; Brewster-Sanford collection). WTiitely found it 
common in the lagoons of Tungasuca, south of Cuzco, in June (P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1869), and 
