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QUERQUEDULA FORMOSA. 



(BAIKAL TEAL.) 



Anas formosa, Georgi, Reise Russ. Reich, p. 168 (1775). 

 Querquedula formosa, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. p. 151 (1824). 

 Anas glocitans, Pall. Acta Holm. xl. p. 22, pi. 33. fig. 1 (1779). 

 Mareca\ glocitans, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. p. 140 (1824). 

 Querquedula glocitans, Vig. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 559 (1825). 

 Anas baiJcal, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. i. p. 158 (1823). 



Canard glousseur, French. 



Mas. ad. pileo medio et gutture nigris : facie laterali et gutture imo fulvescentibus : pectore superiore pallide 

 lilacino, maculis ovalibus nigris transnotato : dorso pulclrre cinereo angustissime vermiculato. 



Fern. ad. brunnea, dorso plumis rufo marginatis : macula lorali, gutture et corpore subtus albidis parum 

 fulvescentibus : pectore superiore et hypochondriis rufo et brunneo marmoratis. 



Adult Male. Crown of the head, back of the neck, entire throat, and a band extending from the eye across 

 the face, narrowing somewhat as it joins the throat, black ; face buff, as also the sides of the neck, 

 extending downwards under the throat, all this buff face being margined narrowly with white; the 

 crown of the head also bordered from behind the eye with a very distinct white line, below which a 

 broad band of metallic green passes along the sides of the head and joins a demicollaret of the same 

 colour, which crosses the nape ; on each side of the hinder portion of the neek a band of black passes 

 in a backward direction ; parallel with this a white band traverses the sides of the neck and joins 

 underneath ; back beautiful blue-grey, somewhat tinged with brown, everywhere most minutely 

 vermiculated with black and white; the outer scapulars grey, hke the back, the inner scapulars 

 elongated, lanceolate, black down the centre, white on the inner web, and rufous on the outer web ; 

 lower part of the back brown, tinged with blue-grey ; wing-coverts brown, some of the greater ones 

 edged with rufous, forming a narrow band ; quills greyish brown, the secondaries black on the outer 

 web, glossed with metallic green near the base, tinged with buff towards the tip, which is pure white 

 along the apex of the feather, so that the coloration of the secondaries gives the appearance of a bar 

 across the wing; the innermost secondaries greyish brown, margined along the edge with alternate 

 narrow fines of white and black ; tail greyish brown ; upper part of the breast pale fawn-colour, 

 strongly tinged with ldac in certain lights, and washed here and there with blue-grey, everywhere 

 marked with more or less distinct oval black spots ; belly whitish, tinged with buff, the flanks blue- 

 grey, minutely vermiculated like the back ; vent black, as are also the under tail-coverts, which, 

 however, are marked with bay on the sides, and are white at the tip, with slight vermiculations ; bill 

 dark bluish brown; feet light greyish blue, darker on the web. Total length 15-5 inches, culmen 1*5, 

 wing 8 - 5, tail 3 - 6, tarsus TO. 



Adult Female. Brown ; some of the dorsal feathers black, margined with rufous ; a white loral spot very 

 distinct ; cheeks and ear-coverts buffy white, thickly spotted with brown specks ; under surface of the 



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