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round black spots ; wing-bar brilliant metallic-blue and green ; 
legs lead colour ; bill nearly black ; eye hazel. 
Female.—General plumage brown, each feather margined 
with a darker shade, edged again with paler ; head light brown, 
speckled with darker ; feet, legs, and bill, similar to male. 
Young.—For the first two months, the young resemble 
the female, but are somewhat darker in plumage; the males 
assuming their distinctive dress about the middle of December. 
Egg.—White, tinged with buff ; eight to ten in number. 
May and June. Incubation, three weeks. 
Nest Down.—Small, dark brown ; darker at the tip. 
BIMACULATED DUCK OR CLUCKING TEAL 
(HYBRID). 
(Querquedula glocitans. Anas bimaculata.) 
This handsome bird, known as the “Clucking Teal,” 
was for many years considered a distinct species. It is now 
established by many ornithologists that it is a hybrid of 
Mallard and Teal. The chief peculiarity of this bird appears 
to be its clucking cry, which is loud and harsh, and repeatedly 
uttered by the drake. 
Dr. Middendorff discovered it in 70 North Lat. on the 
Boganida River; and Dr. Radde tells us that it arrives early in 
S.E. Siberia. 
Male.—Head, cheeks, and throat glossy-green ; crown 
and nape chestnut-brown, deepening into purple-black ; between 
the bill and eyes and below the ear, two large oblong patches 
