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collections, though the Zoological Society of London possessed 
specimens, presented and exchanged in 1892. It is known in 
India as the “ Bronze Cap.” 
Male.—Crown of head deep chestnut, shaded with 
bronze, green, and purple ; upper part of neck and throat white, 
with a blackish-green collar ; the breast and body mottled and 
pencilled with pale grey, white, and black; the saddle feathers 
extremely long and abundant, falling over the tail feathers like 
those of some gallinaceous birds ; wing-coverts grey and white, 
alar speculum, glossy-green ; bill greenish-black ; feet lead grey ; 
eye brown. Total length, tg inches. In undress plumage the 
male resembles the female. 
Female.—Resembles the Gadwall female, with the ex- 
ception that the wing-bar is black and the feet grey, and the 
upper mandible entirely dark, whereas in the female Gadwall 
it is pale throughout with a dark stripe down the centre. 
GENUS CHAULELASMUS. 
Of the two birds comprised by this genus, the second in 
the ‘List of the certainly known species of the Anatidze,” 
Chaulelasmus couest (Coues’s Gadwall), from the Fanning 
Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, has not yet been brought alive 
to Europe. 
GADWALL. 
(Chaulelasmus streperus ). 
The Gadwall or Grey Duck may be considered as a 
regular winter visitor in limited numbers, and common in 
Treland. Sir R. Payne Gallwey gives some interesting particu- 
lars respecting these birds, which he states are extremely shy, 
