152 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
The following description is taken from Salvadori’s 
‘Catalogue of Birds.” 
Male.—General plumage dark sepia-brown, the head and 
upper neck lighter, having the feathers edged with whitish ; the 
feathers of the under parts with narrow pale edges; scapulars 
and tertials with one, two, or three whitish-buff bars, interrupted 
by the shaft; wing-speculum metallic green with a blue gloss, 
bounded anteriorly by two bands on the last row of the wing- 
coverts, one white subterminal, and the other on the tip velvety- 
black ; posteriorly the speculum is bounded by a black sub- 
terminal band and a terminal one white; under wing-coverts 
white, mixed with black ; axillaries white; tail-feathers, upper 
and under tail-coverts almost black, with whitish bars, oblique 
on the tail-feathers ; ‘“‘irides dark chestnut ; bill yellow on the 
edges and at the base, broadly black on the culmen and on the 
nail; feet orange, webs black” (Antinori, Ragazzt). 
Female.—Similar to the male, but somewhat smaller. 
Young.—No information. 
Egg.—Cream colour ; about five in number. 
GENUS EUNETTA. 
A single type known as the Javan or Falcated Teal is 
comprised in this genus, being almost entirely confined to 
Eastern Asia and Japan, breeding in Siberia, and migrating to 
the south in winter. 
FALCATED TEAL, 
(Eunetta falcata). 
Lunetta falcata, although classed as a Teal, is superior 
in size to the generality of these birds. It is very rare in private 
