HARTLAUB'S TEAL 



PTERONETTA HARTLAUBI (Cassin) 

 (Plate 7) 



Synonymy 

 Anas cyanoptera Temminck (nee Vieillot), Mus. Lugdunensis. 

 Pterocyanea cyanoptera Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 43, p. 659, 



1856. 

 Querquedula hartlaubi Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 175. 

 Anas cuprea Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 62, 1866. 

 Pteronetta hartlaubi Salvadori, Cat. Birds British Mus., vol. 27, p. 63, 1895. 

 Pteronetta hartlaubi albifrons Neumann, Bull. British Ornith. Club, vol. 21, p. 42, 



1908. 



Vernacular Names 

 English: Camerun: 



Hartlaub's Teal Alot 



German: Aloteke 



Hartlaubs Krickente Arabic: 



Boro 



DESCRIPTION 



Adult Male: Head and upper part of neck black, a white square patch on the frontal edge; rest of 

 plumage bright chestnut, changing into chocolate olive-brown on the rump; upper wing-coverts blue; 

 primaries brown; secondaries olive brown, with a slight bluish tinge near the edge of the outer web; 

 tertiaries olive brown, edged with black on outer web; under wing-coverts brown, washed with dull 

 lead blue; tail brown (Salvadori, 1895). 



Bill black with pale gray band near the tip and pale yellow spot below the nostril. Feet dark 

 brown with some yellowish on shanks and toes; webs blackish (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). Iris yel- 

 lowish brown (Emin Pasha). 



Total length 559 mm.; wing 270; tail 127; culmen 47. Old males have sometimes a slight swelling 

 at the base of the culmen which disappears in the dried skin (Chapin). 



Adult Female: Similar to male. 



Immature Birds: In the Chapin series in the American Museum of Natural History these are lighter 

 on under parts, with edges of feathers lighter in color. 



Young in Down : One specimen in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge shows upper 

 parts nearly black, lower parts yellowish, chin, neck and breast orange yellow; well-marked black 

 ciliary stripe with superciliary yellow patch, this superciliary patch being almost divided into a front 

 and aback area by the black of the pileum, which at one point touches the eye. Yellowish patch at base 

 of wings, one on sides of back and another on sides of rump; some black feathers around vent; iris 



